Quotes About Leadership

The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.

Unfortunately, generations of people have been told by their political leaders that they are more exceptional human beings than the rest of the world - this sense of privilege is incredibly toxic.

Every manager, when things don't go well, they feel bad about it. That, unfortunately, is our job.

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.

The spokesman at Newcastle, unfortunately, was mainly me. I had to manage the football club.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

Unfortunately, governments do not have a philanthropic approach towards future governments.

Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

There are no working hours for leaders.

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

I'm the G when you spell OG

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words