Quotes About Leadership

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.