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Quotes About Leadership

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~ The Blonde Jon
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
~ The Dhammapada
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
~ The Talmud
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats.
~ The Washington Post Magazine
He who commands the sea has command of everything.
~ Themistocles
[Of his son:] The boy is the most powerful of all the Hellenes; for the Hellenes are commanded by the Athenians, the Athenians by myself, myself by the boy's mother, and the mother by her boy.
~ Themistocles
Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great.
~ Themistocles
Although princes need not necessarily be intelligent, it is essential that they have some sort of public presence. The Duke of York had none. Fine-boned and slightly built, he looked frail, seemed lacking in physical stamina. His air was tense, hesitant, ill-at-ease. An observer had only to notice the incessant working of his jaw muscles to appreciate that he was under severe strain.
~ Theo Aronson
In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'
~ Theo James
For a man of the type of Pompeius, who for want of faith in himself and in his star timidly clung in public life to formal right, and with whom the pretext was nearly of as much importance as the motive, this circumstance was of serious weight.
~ Theodor Mommsen
The ordinary man is destined for service, and he has no objection to be an instrument, if he feels that a master guides him.
~ Theodor Mommsen
Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!" schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.
~ Theodor Storm
It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
With pockets, women could conquer the world!
~ Theodora Goss
With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
É da natureza dos regimes plebiscitários que sejam realizados plebiscitos até a população acertar a resposta que o líder ou a elite bem-pensante tem por correta; nesse caso, nenhum plebiscito ulterior se faz necessário – ao menos acerca do mesmo tema.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
I have decided that I will test my ability … in the fires of the primaries and not just in the smoke-filled rooms of Miami Beach.
~ Theodore H. White
All men who run for presidency of the United States are amateurs; there is no way of becoming a professional at it, and all of them, win or lose, are forever altered in spirit of character by the ordeal.
~ Theodore H. White
Professionals in a campaign are servants; they can tell him only how to do something once he tells them what it is he wants to do.
~ Theodore H. White
Perhaps the book's greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor.
~ Theodore H. White
THE most hopeful adage of political folklore is: "One man plus the truth makes a majority.
~ Theodore H. White
An actor or actress in politics is very dangerous because politics exaggerate the native dramatic instinct with the intoxication of substantive command.
~ Theodore H. White
The best politics for any president is to be a good president.
~ Theodore H. White
The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle.
~ Theodore H. White