Quotes About Leadership

I've loved learning about the position," I said. "It sounds incredibly exciting, and I know I could take the magazine exactly where you want to go.

Does your boss listen? Give clear instructions and challenge you to really go for it? Inspire you? Praise what you do well? Critique you fairly? If yes, good for you! This is going to make it easier for you to succeed. But if you've been handed a bad boss, don't despair. A

When your boss makes suggestions about your work activities, follow up on them. In

Later, you can shoot your boss an e-mail and comment positively on the new strategy or ideas she suggested and say you are eager to implement them. She'll appreciate

When your boss assigns you a project, take good notes and ask questions regarding anything you're not sure about. … The key question to ask: "What are the results you're looking for?" Be clear, too, about deadlines and who needs to be looped in on the project.

I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me," Napoleon vaunted.

Women should stick to knitting," said Napoleon.12

As the Queen put it, 'The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country under any circumstances whatsoever.

first requisite of a really good officer is to temper justice with mercy'. As

Kings can be autocratic, usually are. But queens give up some power to survive. They must work more closely with ministers, accept the views of others. They are hailed as skilled in compromise and bringing people together, whereas kings are congratulated for deciding, commanding.

I was born into a unique conjunction of female prime minister and monarch. To a child growing up in the 1980s, women ruled. Female heads were on coins and notes, criminals were incarcerated at Her Majesty's pleasure, and the queen's armed forces fought a female politician's wars. Accustomed

The ten states where women's status is highest (measured by economic security, leadership, and health) are strongly Democratic, with strong secular cultures (in order: Maryland, Hawaii, Vermont, California, Delaware, Connecticut, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, and Washington).

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.

Palaces are built on the people's bones. To tell the truth, the masses would be better off without kingdoms, which is why it takes a gifted ruler to tell just the right lies so they never realize it.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

The first law of business: Make the rules or your rivals will

I'm a student of history. Revolutions only get names after it's clear who won.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Gates had a notion that only solid code writers should manage and all managers of code writers should keep writing code.

Gently push back, at least for one round. Cooperative people are programmed to say yes to the first reasonable proposal someone makes. To improve, you need to practice pushing back a little. A simple question that works well is: "Can you do better than that?

everyone in the land has an equal chance. In war the bravest becomes a general, in peace the cleverest is chosen as a councillor.