Quotes About Leadership

Do you know what happens to politicians who tell the truth? They get voted out of office. We must lie to the voters. Tell them the truth, and they punish us. Lie, and they reward us.

It is something anyone in power must fear, being surrounded by the flatterers and fools who say only what they think the powerful want to hear.

courage needs to be paired with discipline, individual initiative with support to your comrades.

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what's going on?

Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.

DECISIVENESS SEPARATES GREAT LEADERS FROM DREAMERS AND TALKERS.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. George S. Patton

En el mundo futuro, nadie me preguntará: "¿Por qué no fuiste Moisés?". Deberían preguntarme: "¿Por qué no fuiste Zusya?". Rabino Zusya

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been. Thomas Groome

A boss might give instructions and bark orders, a consultant would analyze data and give advice, but a coach would use curiosity to ask, listen and draw out the best from people.

If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU Legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker

leaders are born in crises and accidents happen when you least expect them.

And when Mother Teresa was asked why she didn't participate in anti-war demonstrations, she said, "I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there." These great leaders knew that to be against something—to focus on your opposition to it—just creates more of it.

You must direct the fire and movement of the entire element and resist the instinct to become just another gun in the fight.

In Judges, Gideon asks God how to choose his men for battle. The Lord told Gideon to take his men down to the river and drink. The men who flopped down on their bellies and drank like dogs were no good to him. Gideon watched as some of his men knelt down and drank with their heads watching the horizon, spears in hand. Though they were few, they were the men he needed.

The admiral was clearly more concerned with force diversity and the push to open the SEAL Teams to females than he was with crushing America's enemies. Whatever got him his next star.

It was the first time he'd circumvented the chain of command, going around his boss in the SOCOM Acquisition Office. With results like this he might have to do it more often.

That was how one built trust as a combat leader. Without trust, there was nothing.

Good. Remember. No one is coming. It's up to us. Take your positions.

Once an Eagle, by Anton Myrer.

Prioritize and execute.

The NCOs on his staff were all convinced that his regulation-length brown mustache was the result of the time he spent crawling up the SOCOM acquisition director's ass. This, along with his rodentlike face, led to his nickname: Gerbil.

The Teams had a saying: "Don't rush to your death.

As President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." The same is true of warfare; it looks mighty easy when your rifle is a budget approval and you are six thousand miles from the battlefield.