Quotes About Leadership

Peygamberlerden kork Adso; gerçek uÄŸruna ölmeye haz?r olanlardan da; çünkü onlar genellikle birçok insan? da kendileriyle birlikte ölmeye sürüklerler, bazen kendilerinden önce, bazen de kendilerinin yerine.

hombre político contemporáneo es el ser más distanciado de la gente común porque vive en fortines protegidos, viaja en automóviles blindados, se mueve rodeado de gorilas, y por lo tanto la gente lo ve solo de lejos y nunca tiene ocasión de hacer la compra en el supermercado o la cola en una ventanilla municipal.

Tell me what this means, Dax said. I'm a busy woman with a ship to run and a crisis to handle and I've surrounded myself with smart, dedicated people for the sole purpose of interpreting unintelligible squiggles for me.

Was that what Starfleet was, when it came down to it? One massive high-school science club? Why had no one ever mentioned this before?

In short, the British government were committed to the policy of satisfying the Führer, and must continue in that course

I am under orders, as much so as any private in the army. The American people are my boss, and I have the job of finding out what they want, and doing it.

I am the leader of a party. I have only two years more as President, and I cannot take an action without thinking what will be its effect upon the party's future; otherwise I might throw away my six years' work, and have the humiliation of seeing a successor undo the entire New Deal.

When will they stop following leaders who build their monuments out of millions of human skulls?" The son of Budd-Erling was perhaps the least happy man in that famous old church at the moment. He had little admiration for Napoleon Bonaparte, and still less for his Austrian imitator.

For eight years he had been a satellite of F.D.R., revolving about him; now suddenly there was no F.D.R., and Lanny was an asteroid or something, wandering alone through space.

It has happened just about as I told you, M. Budd." Lanny said it was so, and thought that the death of something like a hundred and twenty-five thousand Frenchmen, and the captivity of ten or twelve times as many, signified less to Pierre Laval than the ability to say: "C'est moi qui avait raison!

men who understood the workers and how to fool them with glittering promises and then climb to power upon their shoulders.

The politicians and generals and kings lived in the limelight and enjoyed the glory, while the men of money stayed in the background and gave the orders, politely when possible, but making sure they would be obeyed.

The common people of that land of hope and glory adored their war leader, but they didn't want him as a peace leader—a distinction that was clear to them but must have been confusing to Winnie. The Labour party obtained a majority of almost two to one; they got it upon the basis of a definite program calling for the nationalization of the five most important of the nation's industries: coal, steel, transportation, communications, and finance.

Go forth, my son, and learn with how little wisdom the world is governed!

Here, too, many would scold at the government, but for the opposite reason, that it couldn't keep its mind made up; it was composed of polite old gentlemen who couldn't bear to disturb things or to displease their subordinates, the bureaucrats, no matter what election results came in.

One man decides, and the rest obey.

He didn't know how to speak properly, how to walk properly, how to comb his hair, and she felt embarrassed for him as he shouted about restoring jobs and national honor, about a better and splendid Germany. The mob applauded, shouted. Did people really believe that he wanted what was best for Germany?

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

We have nothing. We solace ourselves with the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves. 'Here, take my manhood and invest it for me. Take my manhood and be a greater man yourself, for my sake!

Unless we can get them thinking, and give them real ideas instead of just politics and principles, these young men will keep our world in turmoil for the next half century.

You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man

But she was a good boss, Sam. The best I've ever had.

Carol Jordan had been the perfect boss as far as she was concerned.

No one has the right to lead other people like sheep. That's something even Lenin failed to understand. The purpose of a revolution is to free people. But Lenin just said: "In the past you were led badly, I'm going to lead you well.