Quotes About Leadership

Luther's principles for the internal, and Machiavelli's practice for the external, direction of the State were to be the ideal for many generations.

John Neville Figgis

Consider the sense of fulfillment in the leaders of a company that is expanding, achieving its mission, giving vocational opportunities to men and women who yesterday didn't have any. They are watching the miracle

It is the duty of a shepherd to know the state of his flock; and unless he do so he will never feed them profitably.

Jika para pemberi suara tidak tahu alat terpenting yang dimanfaatkan pemimpin mereka, bisakah bangsa tersebut mengklaim sebagai bangsa yang demokratis?

T. Cluck, the head rooster, had just made a shocking revelation.

Canada is now the oldest continuous democratic federation in the world, in good part because most of our leaders, and certainly the best ones, have respected most of these written and unwritten rules. Other countries – almost all our allies and friends – have suffered civil wars, coups, dictatorships, sharp breaks, because they could not maintain the flexibility and respect for the Other that these rules, in particular the unwritten rules, create.

Voters do not choose prime ministers; they choose representatives. And the voters' muscle is expressed through the right of their representatives to give their confidence to governments and to remove it. If the ability of the representatives to give or remove their confidence is interfered with, we are no longer a democracy.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Reichsheini's8

Yorkische Marsch.

François Mitterrand is credited with saying that the most essential quality for any statesman is indifference

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

I believe the first test of truly a great man is in his humility.

All building, therefore, shows man either as gathering or governing: and the secrets of his success are his knowing what to gather, and how to rule.

They both knew what they were thinking, though neither said it: Taryn Grant had what it took to be president. She had the business background, she understood economics and finance, she had the money wrapped up, she looked terrific, she had a mind that understood the necessary treacheries: a silken Machiavelli.

Flowers wouldn't be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.

It's the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves." •

That's the end of it?" "Not quite. I've invited Grant to a little confab in my office tomorrow, with Porter Smalls. Mitford will be there, and her campaign manager, and I'd like you to sit in. And I'll get Rose Marie to come along." "Why is that?" "Because I want everybody clear on what happened here, and why everybody did what they did—including you and me," the governor said.

The moral of the story was not to wear a red shirt. Or go on away missions when you're the only one whose name isn't on the opening credits.

Szilard looked over at Robbins. "Is it true?" he said. "Which part, sir?" Robbins said. "That you don't like General Mattson," Szilard said. "He can take some getting used to, sir," Robbins said. "By which he means I'm an asshole

An alliance with terrible people." "Really nice people don't usually accrue power.

It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl. Holloway would have to speak to him about it, for what little good it would do, Carl being a dog and all.

General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.