Quotes About Leadership

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Karl Marx had said, "Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will conquer the world

Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You.

The best way to make a difference is to be the difference.

A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one-- And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Advertising is of the very essence of democracy. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which manufacturer and which product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Leaders never hesitate to miscount or destroy ballots. Coming to office and staying in office are the most important things in politics. And candidates who aren't willing to cheat are typically beaten by those who are. Since

The world of politics is dictated by rules.

Every type of politics could be addressed from the point of view of leaders trying to survive.

It's always better for a ruler to determine who eats than it is to have a larger pie from which the people can feed themselves.

Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on many essentials, they can only come to and stay in power if they figure out the right basket of public goods to provide.

This is the essential lesson of politics: in the end ruling is the objective, not ruling well.

For autocrats, money spent on people—like infants and little children—who are years away from contributing to the economy is money wasted. Resources should instead be focused on those who help the ruler stay in power now, not those who might be valuable in the distant future.

After all, our experience tends to confirm that on one end of the political spectrum we have autocrats and tyrants—horrible, selfish thugs who occasionally stray into psychopathology. On the other end, we have democrats—elected representatives, presidents, and prime ministers who are the benevolent guardians of freedom. Leaders from these two worlds, we assure ourselves, must be worlds apart! It's a convenient fiction, but a fiction nonetheless.

The difference between doing a good job and doing a lousy job is driven by how many people a leader has to keep happy.

It is better to have loyal incompetents than competent rivals. Sometimes of course, having competent advisors is unavoidable.

No fool stays in power for years on end when there are so many generals, sons, and wives waiting in the wings to launch a coup.

The choice between enhancing social welfare and enriching a privileged few is not a question of how benevolent a leader is. Honorable motives might seem important, but they are overwhelmed by the need to keep essential supporters happy, and the means of keeping them happy depends on how many need rewarding.

En política, llegar al poder nunca tiene que ver con hacer lo correcto. Siempre tiene que ver con hacer lo que conviene.

In the 1860s the leaders of the cotton belt made one of the most prodigious miscalculations in recorded history. On the eve of the era of applied technologies, in which more and more work is done with fewer people and less effort, they made war to preserve the day of chattel slavery - the era of gang labor, with its reliance on the same use of human muscles that built the pyramids. The lost cause was lost before it started to fight. Inability to see what is going on in the world can be costly.