Quotes About Leadership

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

The leader must be an actor.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton.

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

War is the trade of kings.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.