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Quotes About Leadership

Son égale ! Mais comment ? Ne suis-je pas sa femme ? Quel autre que lui pourrait me diriger ? N'est-il pas mon maître par la loi ?
~ Pearl Buck
If a superior man undertakes something and tried to lead, He goes astray. But if he follows, he finds guidance. It is favourable to find friends in the West and South, and quiet perseverance brings good fortune.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Who rules well is always hated.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I don't know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.
~ Pearl S. Buck
the superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind.
~ Pearl S. Buck
rulers anywhere are always the first to fly, and the people must stay behind to be steadfast. And the noise of the battle grew more strong, hour by hour.
~ Pearl S. Buck
under the decree and guidance of the great King Sejong.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Now although it is said that lords of war should be subservient in a nation to the civil governors of the people, it is a thing known and proved that the power goes always to the armed man and the man with weapons, and how can a weaponless man, even though he has the right, oppose a man of war in the same region with him, who has soldiers to his command?
~ Pearl S. Buck
Even our enemies call him 'great soul,' and declare that they are honored in defeat by such a one.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
~ Seneca the Younger
The Last Argument of Kings.
~ Louis XIV
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
~ Brian Clough
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
~ John Locke
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
~ George Washington
Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
~ Jimmy Carl Black
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
~ John Sayles
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
~ George Henry Lewes
The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.
~ Napoleon Hill
Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.
~ Emily Yoffe
We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.
~ Ray Dalio
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~ Colin Powell
Management is the art of getting things done through people.
~ Mary Parker Follett
If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.
~ Rickson Gracie