Quotes About Leadership

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

It's just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

It is a rule of leading people, Gideon. You may be confused, or afraid, or overwhelmed, or all three—those who depend on you must never see it.