Quotes About Leadership

every major successful revolution ended by creating a state more powerful than the one it overthrew, a state that in turn was able to extract more resources from and exercise more control over the very populations it was designed to serve.

If one were to imagine a pantheon or Hall of Fame of highmodernist figures, it would almost certainly include such names as Henri Comte de Saint-Simon, Le Corbusier, Walther Rathenau, Robert McNamara, Robert Moses, Jean Monnet, the Shah of Iran, David Lilienthal, Vladimir I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Julius N~erer

Francis has a tragic blind spot — the corruption of clericalism….

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars. (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

Then, alone once more, he split himself into the three persons that all generals of the Church must simultaneously be. First, the anointed Peter, first Bishop of Christ, with all that that spiritually implied. Second, the militant guardian of the Church temporal with all that that implied. And last, just a simple man who believed the teachings of a simple man who was the Son of God.

My captain will help you be very quick. Within three sticks." The unit of time was the time it took for a standard stick of incense to smolder away, approximately one hour for one stick.

an able man has many burdens. As I'm abler than most I have to sweat more than most.

The British. We have proved beyond all doubt we're to be trusted, we can govern, and, by and large, our bureaucracy's incorruptible.

Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn't it? They spill so much of other people's blood.

People are "the company" and those in charge can and always will hide behind that facade, that "the company must survive," or "for the good of the company," and so on, wrecking or promoting for personal reasons, enmities or hatreds.

Empires are built by young men, Culum. They're lost by old men.

As to Vietnam, no one here thinks President Kennedy can handle that either, much as we admire him personally.

Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.

There can only be one Tai-Pan.

Our writers have always pointed the way for us, Mr. Grey, they've formed our thinking and feeling, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Chekhov, Bunin …" He added with pride, "Writers with us are pathfinders.

Put not your trust in bloody princes, they can plead expedience.

semidivine families of the Minowara, Takashima, and Fujimoto were entitled to the rank of Sh?gun.

the Sh?gun was all powerful. Until he was overthrown.

Adam ruled over vÅ¡emi.Byl Král.Až the day he will be king opustila.Pak came forth and became food for the silnÄ›jÅ¡í.A strongest was always king , not only due to its strength, but thanks to his smarts , luck and strength together. among rats.

Although he had a directing hand in everything, he always remained a student at heart.

To give advice to a tyrant was to suggest his fallibility and offer oneself as a scapegoat should things go wrong.

The pressures of command were clearly weighing on him. He had insufficient authority, but he was no longer sure he wanted more of it.

When a man is in command, he sits in a position where he cannot have friend or foe. Regular human relationships do not figure into it. So you can't worry about what people think of you, and you can't lie awake and have sleepless nights. The job of being in command is lonely by definition.