Quotes About Leadership

The best tycoons are like magicians: they know when to share information and when to withhold. - p141

The best tycoons are like magicians; they know when to share information and when to withhold.

Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadma.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

Your storm, Thlayli-rah. Use it.

My lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.' The Black Rabbit drew his claws along the floor. Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah,' he said. 'There is not a day or a night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.

I know. And we have no does--not one--and no does means no kittens and in a few years no warren. It may seem incredible that the rabbits had given no thought to so vital a matter. But men have made the same mistake more than once--left the whole business out of account, or been content to trust to luck and the fortune of war.

I'm sick and tired of it, he said, It's the same all the time. 'These are my claws, so this is my cowslip. 'These are my teeth, so this is my burrow.' I'll tell you, if I ever get into the Owsla, I'll treat outskirters with a bit of decency.

Bigwig, as he had predicted, was getting his head bitten off.

Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah, he said. There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.

Now Bigwig's put their backs up, and they'll think they've got to go on because he makes them. I want them to go on because they can see it's the only thing to do.

I dare say a good many... would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief, but I'm afraid I'm not much good at that.

Bigwig: I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah. Hazel: Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

Hazel, watching, lent help here and there and encouraged the others.

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah," replied Bigwig.

Can you run?" said Hazel. "I think not. Why you pop-eyed, back-door saucer-scraper—

El-ahrairah, tu pueblo no puede gobernar el mundo porque yo no lo he dispuesto así. Todo el mundo será tu enemigo, Príncipe con Mil Enemigos, y te matarán si te alcanzan. Pero antes tendrán que atraparte, a ti, que cavas y escuchas y corres, príncipe con la alarma presta. Sé astuto e ingenioso y tu pueblo nunca será destruido.

Under my tutelage you will be safe': the phrase is derived from 'me duce tutus eris' in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, with the literal meaning 'with me as a leader you will be safe'.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

Genes are the primary policy-makers; brains are the executives.

Bush presided over more executions in Texas than any other governor in the state's history, averaging one death every nine days.

George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).

Always devise your rules as if you didn't know whether you were going be at the top or the bottom of the pecking order.