Quotes About Leadership

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.