Quotes About Leadership

That's not how the world is run," I replied. "It's run via intangibles—knowledge, networks, and compassion.

The leader's role is to describe reality, and give hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "The leader's role is to describe reality, and give hope."30

humans are more likely to accept a person's advice because of the communicator's level of certainty than because of his or her track record or résumé. Show me someone who lights up a room, commands respect, and charms everyone, and I'll point out the underlying energy that makes it all possible: confidence.

There is nothing that will empower and encourage your team more than to know you listen to them.

during tough times, "Leaders stretch to the challenge, while followers shrink from the challenge.

One of the biggest differences between leaders and followers is that leaders are learners.

A leader who is successful at work but a failure at home is not a successful leader.

the success of leaders will rise or fall based on the decisions they make about the people around them.

They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing.

I used to be a summer camp counselor when I was younger.

In the cold war, the CIA was condemned by the American left for what it did. In the war on terror, the CIA was attacked by the American right for what it could not do. The charge was incompetence, leveled by such men as Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. Say what one may about their leadership, they knew from long experience what the reader now knows: the CIA was unable to fulfill its role as America's intelligence service.

We're not going to lose it. That's all there is to it," Richard Nixon said to Kissinger on February 18, as Lam Son 719 became a debacle. "We can't lose. We can lose an election, but we're not going to lose this war, Henry.… North Vietnam can never beat South Vietnam. Never.

There weren't any moderates left in the government of Iran.

The Constitution has never greatly bothered any wartime president," Franklin D. Roosevelt's attorney general once wrote—and every president since has seen himself at war.

To his enduring sorrow, Bill Clinton chose yet another pious judge to run the Bureau.

The director of the National Security Agency, General Michael V. Hayden, had told tens of thousands of his officers in a video message: "We are going to keep America free by making Americans feel safe again.

She also had run Stellar Wind since its inception. Mueller made her his right hand.

if everything is entrusted to a single mind, its inevitable subjective distortions will distort, if not altogether disable, the innovation process.

They didn't hide by day and only come out at night. They were people who held their communities together, bankers and merchants, lawyers and doctors, coaches and teachers, servants of God and shapers of opinion.

Napoleon rarely marched off to battle without hundreds of cases of Moët & Chandon in tow. "I drink champagne when I win," he said, "and I drink champagne when I lose.

In Pinchot, he saw someone "who could relish, not run from a rainstorm," as he wrote. Just like himself.

Far ahead of his time, and to the criticism of isolationists in his own party, Roosevelt tried to get the major nations of the world to come together and take stock of the globe they shared.

In Marion County, every major elected official but two was a Klansman.