Quotes About Leadership

All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

A company is judged by the president it keeps.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.

Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus Going on before.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

The ideal committee is one with me as chairman, and two other members in bed with flu.

If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

A committee of one gets things done.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow, and of the man who leads, that gains the victory.

Every man in it is a great man, an orator, a critic, a statesman; and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.

One man with courage makes a majority.