Quotes About Leadership

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."

Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business, but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers, administrators, even gofers-at least for a while.

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.

I would rather be right than President.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is to help the man ahead of you to get promoted.

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.