Quotes About Leadership

Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.

He not only fumbled badly in his attempts at impromptu oratory en route to the capital, but worst of all, ended his journey in the dead of night, embarrassingly fearful for his safety, after encouraging unseemly partisan demonstrations in friendly Northern cities. He was too conspicuous. He was too sequestered. He was too careless. He was too calculating. He was too conciliatory. He was too coercive. He was too sloppy.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.

Lincoln gives a lesson in adaptive leadership even to those of us who will never advocate for compensated emancipation. Facing an uproar over the cost of the government paying slaveholders for their slaves, Lincoln showed the COST OF THE STATUS QUO, which is generally overlooked by those who oppose change.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.

I am against government by crony.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Harold MacMillan

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

You don't expect me to get on line with all them rednecks, Polacks and niggers, do you? Don't forget I was a foreman out at Chrysler.

When Moses says, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?" God answers not by telling Moses who he is, but by telling him who God is, saying, "I will be with you" (Exodus 3:12)

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.