Quotes About Leadership

El ejecutivo que me dice que no puede recordar nombres, me está diciendo que no puede recordar una parte importante de su trabajo, y está operando sobre arenas movedizas. Karen

In the heyday of his activity, John D. Rockefeller said that 'the ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee.' 'And I will pay more for that ability,' said John D., 'than for any other under the sun.

Ya lo dijo Lincoln hace cerca de cien años. Estas son sus palabras: Una vieja y exacta máxima dice que una gota de miel caza más moscas que un galón de hiel También ocurre con los hombres que si usted quiere ganar a alguien a su causa, debe convencerlo primero de que es usted un amigo sincero. Ahí está la gota de miel que caza su corazón; el cual, dígase lo que se quiera, es el camino real hacia su razón.

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid, and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

There are many, many exceptions, but, in general, it is true that there is scarcely a bishop in Christendom, a priest in the church, a president, a governor, mayor, or legislator in the United States, a college professor or public school teacher who does not in the end stand by War and Ignorance as the main method for the settlement of our pressing human problems. And this despite the fact that they may deny it with their mouths every day.

a man whose leadership lay not in his office, wealth or influence, but in the white flame of his utter devotion to an ideal.

A dying king, said Sir Thomas More, is apt to be wiser than a healthy king.

It is the firstborn's burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.

Oh captain my captain

Thought Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.

Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.

I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him

is that the President? Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep

The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation.

The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it.

Names are the turning point of who shall be master. - There is so much virtue in names that a nation which produces its own names, haughtily adheres to them, and subordinates others to them, leads all the rest of the nations of the earth. - I also promulge that a nation which has not its own names, but begs them of other nations, has no identity, marches not in front but behind.

Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest, Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.

Az engedelmességrÅ'l, h?ségrÅ'l, ragaszkodásról; Amint így távol állok, s elnézem, van számomra valami mélységesen megható az óriási embertömegekben, amelyek azok irányítását követik, akik nem hisznek az emberiségben.

O captain! My captain!