Quotes About Leadership

You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.

Inés de Bobadilla, Cuba's first woman governor

You know when true equality will be achieved? When a woman with...skeletons in her closet has the nerve to run for office.

Some people who run for office want to create change, and some want everyone to fall in love with them.

And I want a woman in that seat. Whether it's Alan Dixon or Joe Biden or George Bush, I'm so tired of these idiot men getting to make up the rules for the rest of us. They're not smarter. They're not nicer. They don't have better judgment. They're just men.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Perhaps: What is it about Trump's business record that you find most persuasive?

No pervs allowed in the Oval Office," Donald said. "I didn't make the rules.

Part of the problem with just empathy with professed goals is that empathy doesn't do us anything. We've had lots of empathy; we've had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have viewed politics as the art of the possible. And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.

To be a leader you must be a reader. Read, lead, succeed. Cynthia Brian

Griff couldn't, as Oriel could, gather men to him at a glance, seal them to him with a word. He had himself been the first gathered, the first sealed.

they want to do the right thing. Just make sure they know you want them to do the right thing.

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge. Look at the way things are. I'm no fucken genius or anything, but these spazzos are in charge of my every twitch. What I'm starting to think is maybe only the dumb are safe in this world, the ones who roam with the herd, without thinking about every little thing. But see me? I have to think about every little fucken thing.

Ah, God, what has man done to man? What have the leaders of men been doing to their fellow-men? They have reduced them to less than humanness; and now there can be no fellowship any more! It is just a nightmare.

There is always a master. And men either live in glad obedience to the master they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine. In America this frictional opposition has been the vital factor.

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

There were eleven of us. Each more different than the next. All with the same mindset. Things weren't the way they were meant to be. It was our job to make things right. We were the soldiers of Halla. It was time for us to take it back.

The ancients thought it shameful to seek advancement or want to be the head of something, or the chief or senior.

Actually, when working in any position of responsibility, not only as tenzo, but as any officer or assistant, strive to maintain a spirit of joy and magnanimity, along with the caring attitude of a parent.57

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering—to personality and the ability to lead people.

The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

People who smile," he said, "tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children.