Quotes About Leadership

said Ender cheerfully.

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.

was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it.

Masters never are content with mere respect from their servants.

Poor kid. Nobody's treatin' him fair." Ender gently pushed Bean back against the wall. "I'll tell you how to get a toon. Prove to me you know what you're doing as a soldier. Prove to me you know how to use other soldiers. And then prove to me that somebody's willing to follow you into battle. Then you'll get your toon. But not bloody well until.

It wasn't the soldiers who changed. It was the leader.

War gets invented every time there's somebody so hungry for domination that he can't leave peaceful nations alone.

Why am I doing this? What does this have to do with being a good commander, making one boy the target of all the others? Just because they did it to me, why should I do it to him? Ender wanted to undo his taunting of the boy, wanted to tell the others that the little one needed his help and friendship more than anything else. But of course Ender couldn't do that. Not on the first day. On the first day even his mistakes had to look like part of a brilliant plan.

Everything I hated in a commander, and I'm doing it. Is it some law of human nature you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.

Sometimes the government is the last to know.

Orson Scott Card

We're businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.

no nation is governable except by overwhelming force or complete cooperation.

I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

When God anoints a person, a pattern of testing appears to take place at specific times in the leader's life. God often takes each leader through four major tests to determine if that person will achieve God's ultimate call on his or her life. The person's response to these tests is the deciding factor in whether they can advance to the next level of responsibility in God's Kingdom.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

In 1974, Mahmoud Darwish wrote Yasser Arafat's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations: Today I have come bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. 346 I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.