Quotes About Leadership

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

But only by making workers into thinkers and doers will firms inspire workers to excel.

To maximize return on investment is an inadequate statement of purpose. It fails to accomplish the paramount responsibility of leadership—to provide meaning and inspiration to those who are expected to follow. The mass of people within our corporations are not primarily motivated by maximizing private gain. Many firms are structured as if they were….

Globally competitive companies don't eschew profit or financial well-being, but they do not believe businesses achieve financial goals by using accounting variables to control people's work. They see employees as a source of learning, not as a cost.

The objective of most corporate leaders is to use people to make a great company. My objective is to use the company to make great people. —Ralph C. Stayer

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

He was not a warm person, but he seemed to be, which in politics was more important.

Eyes must look far ahead, and thoughts be deeply pondered. Be bold and unremitting in attack. Give the wrong command, and two chariots are rendered useless. Come the right moment, a pawn can bring you victory.

I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go, If I fail, I will be swept away.

Today I am the President of the Republic, but I will be the first to join the Maquis.

I have carried this abscess too far, Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous.