Quotes About Leadership

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Great artists need great clients.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.