Quotes About Leadership

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.