Quotes About Leadership

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

They were the stumbling blocks, not MacArthur.

[On World War II:] We could not indulge in a Seven Years War. A king can perhaps do that, but you cannot have such a protracted struggle in a democracy in the face of mounting casualties.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

Juchniewicz silenced Cogan with a communiqué of unusual clarity: "Higher authority wants a mean fucker in the job.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

Computers are designed to be problem solvers, whereas the politicians have inherited the stone age syndrome of the tribal chieftains, who take for granted that they can rule their people only by making them hate and fight all other tribes," Alfvén continued. "If we have the choice of being governed by problem generating trouble makers, or by problem solvers, every sensible man of course would prefer the latter.

Paul also lists one of the gifts of the Spirit as "administration" (1 Cor. 12:28). The word literally means "steersman," "helmsman," and must refer to the gift of leadership in the churches, "a true director of its order and therefore of its life.

Walking in the Spirit means to live each moment under the control of the Holy Spirit. Walking involves living a step at a time, moment by moment; and to walk in the Spirit means to take each step of my earthly walk under the direction and control and leadership of the Holy Spirit.

It is obvious that there is no uniform pattern of government in Acts. The form of leadership was an historical development in which the apostles, elders, and the congregation shared.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

Bushism is Reaganism minus the passion for freedom.

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

Soothing assumptions about the good faith and shared interests of antagonists are natural to democracy, as is the desire to spend money on things other than defense. Getting a democracy to do what does not come naturally requires leadership.

In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon

Those who know the least obey the best.