Quotes About Leadership

Once you perform once, twice, or even three times, soldiers develop confidence in your leadership. You can only hope that this confidence will be passed to other leaders within the company.

A good communist,' the man had said, 'does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction.

But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.

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Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.

What use are these people's wits, who let themselves be led by speechmakers, in crowds, without considering how many fools and thieves they are among, and how few choose the good? The best choose progress toward one thing, a name forever honored by the gods, while others eat their way toward sleep like nameless oxen.

Give me one man from among ten thousands, if he be the best.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.

the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.

I'll take the contract. He can have the team.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Government is essentially immoral.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.