Quotes About Leadership

he'd tried to teach her to be as thoughtful of his employees as she was of him and of her friends;

This is no way to run a business," I told Dim Sum, and then looked at Tons of Fun. "And you might want to lay off the carbs, you fucking wildebeest.

No person is just one thing. People can be filled with light and affection and also be tortured and conniving and dishonest. Happiness can coincide with great pain. One can lead while also following, the same way one can follow while also leading

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

villages that their leaders came together to save themselves.

Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

what kind of democracy can exist side by side with so much corruption and ignorance?

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of re-education and re-generation that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

one man with vision—an enlightened dictator. People are scared of the word nowadays. But what kind of democracy can exist side by side with so much corruption and ignorance?

Looking at a king's mouth, one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

direction, towards a world of bad systems, bad leadership, and bad followership. The question then is, How do we redirect our steps in a hurry? In other words, where do we begin and have the best chance of success?

Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.

It's a terrible era when idiots are allowed to govern the blind

Some are just businessmen.

every woman's mind is her kingdom. Rule it wisely, lassie.

Political leaders, who use the tools of mass propaganda to create a sense of faux intimacy with citizens, no longer need to be competent, sincere, or honest. They need only to appear to have these qualities. Most of all they need a story, a personal narrative.

All cults are personality cults. All cults are really extensions of whoever the cult leader is. So, whatever the prejudices, the worldview and the ideas of the cult leader are they will be chanted back at him by the crowd. Until massive social and economic inequality as well as the betrayal of the country by the elite are confronted and remedied, this yearning for a cult leader will not go away. Desperate people are looking for somebody to save them.

The idiots take over in the final days of crumbling civilizations. Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation. Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for corporation and the rich and cutting social service programs for the poor. They project economic growth on the basis of myth.

Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy.

A failed democracy, Plato warned, creates the conditions for tyranny based on popular support.

Whether we're up 2-0 early in the second half, or we're up 1-0 with 10 minutes left in the game, my mind-set is the same when I come in the game. It's to help keep that lead, whatever way I can.

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.