Quotes About Leadership

Don't you remember telling me that you're the brain and I'm the brawn? Naturally I expect you to do all the talking. And naturally I shall knockheads and toss people out of windows as required. Or did I misunderstand? Did you want me to think, too?

If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one?

The Vizier is a genius, truly, if he can keep peace among three hundred women. I can't do so with only one.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself." "Says the man with the black eye.

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king.

We have not one but two former presidents of the Junior League (we knew this about them and we still embraced them as if they were normal).

He snorted. "Elle, you're always right. It's your world and we all just live in it.

There's no crying in baseball! —Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own

Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.

Wait. You work for me? I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Tavi grinned. Are you with me? The plan is insane, Ehren said. YOU are insane. He looked around the inside of the tent. I'll need some pants.

I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

Give it to 'em! Take 'em down! First Aleran! Kick their furry-- Assault formation!

Form up, I murmured, because it sounded more military and tougher than saying, You guys go first.

Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out," I said. He arched an elegant silver eyebrow. "Okay," I said. "That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended." "Indeed," said the Merlin.

If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.

Come on, I said to Karrin. Head for the other boat. Should we? she asked. That Erlking guy seems a little..do-it-yourselfy.

If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive.

At the end of the day, the greatest power Harry has is in lifting up the people around him.

Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.