Quotes About Leadership

Asegurabas que los dirigentes indígenas podían gobernar con más eficiencia el país. Habían heredado sabiduría milenaria y dominaban los secretos más recónditos de la tierra donde habían crecido.

It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.

He wrestled with himself, like Jacob . . . like every leader ever to set foot on this earth. It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.

Si se me preguntara qué hacer para volver la política un asunto honrado no dudaría en responder: debemos eliminar a los políticos. Una

Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos.

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

a man who wishes to profess goodness at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not so good. Hence it is necessary for a prince who wishes to maintain his position to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge . . . according to necessity.'25

The task of an inspiring leader in Kali Yuga is not just to think about the difficulty of being good but how to confront that difficulty—and to place that thinking in the great textual confrontations of the past.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

La multitud escucha siempre al hombre dotado de una fuerte voluntad. Ya que los individuos reunidos en masa pierden toda voluntad, se tornan instintivamente hacia aquel que la posee.

To know the art of impressing the imagination of crowds is to know at the same time the art of governing them.

Peoples are not governed in accordance with their caprices of the moment, but as their character determines that they shall be governed. Centuries are required to form a political system and centuries needed to change it. Institutions have no intrinsic virtue: in themselves they are neither good nor bad.

To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are in the hands of their admirers, and the cult of which they are the object is not notably different from that accorded to their predecessors.

As soon as a certain number of living beings are gathered together, whether they be animals or men, they place themselves instinctively under the authority of a chief.

The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible.

Medeniyetler ?imdiye kadar küçük bir fikir aristokrasisi taraf?ndan meydana getirilmi? ve idare olunmu?tur. Asla kitleler taraf?ndan de?il. Kalabal?klar yaln?z y?k?c? kuvvete sahiptirler.

The type of hero dear to crowds will always have the semblance of a Caesar. His insignia attracts them, his authority overawes them, and his sword instils them with fear.

Ill-treat men as you will, massacre them by millions, be the cause of invasion upon invasion, all is permitted you if you possess prestige in a sufficient degree and the talent necessary to uphold it.

Men forming a crowd cannot do without a master, whence it results that the votes of an assembly only represent, as a rule, the opinions of a small minority.