Quotes About Leadership

Even in a revolutionary movement, most people are like sheep. They are naturally afraid, and like sheep, they have to be led.

Let's face it: the vast majority of the American people are just not intelligent enough to function independently in a modern technological society. They have to be led, for their own good. The problem is, most of them are too ignorant to know what's best for them.

In the space of four years, Republicans had gone from running the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate to losing all three.

Though their policies may have shared the same spirit, there were serious differences between Calvin Coolidge and Donald Trump. Coolidge was a model of reticence and comportment. Trump was not. Coolidge stood for the "American" way of doing things and presided over a "normal" government in a "normal" time. Trump stood outside the system, even during the years in which he was president. He and his supporters were not preserving the status quo.

As Bush told Dan Balz of the Washington Post in the spring of 1999, "There is a role for government. But there is also a role for institutions that are value-laden, value-oriented, and that exist all across America.

Leadership is a process of social influence which works to increase the efforts of others in pursuit of a goal. It happens when people with a vision inspire others to make a change happen despite obstacles.

It was the face of a general to follow unto death, the face of a teacher at whose feet the wise would fight to sit, the face of a king made for the adoration of worlds: the face of a primarch. And rage made it the face of a beast.

Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God's sword would smite him? Who is this woman

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes

Help your employees in the direction of their dreams and you will create the most dynamic environment in corporate America!

How much would you be willing to spend to create a highly efficient, cohesive, and enthusiastic team that cared about your business, if you knew that every dollar you spent would come back to you threefold or sixfold or tenfold?

what drives the people who drive the organization?

Fully engaged people believe the future can be bigger than the past, and they believe they can directly influence that bigger future. That's our No. 1 job as leaders, to convince people of those two things.

Everywhere he had traveled he found that Americans "have their sectional loves and hatreds, but before the dear name of Washington they are all absorbed and forgotten

Given a few days to contemplate it, the firing on Fort Sumter had cut through what had been a tangle of painful questions and a thicket obscuring who bore responsibility for thrusting them on the country.

Power means never having to say you're sorry.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

The mark of a well-constituted state is that it makes it possible "to avoid the follies of appetite and to keep men within the bounds of reason, as far as possible, that they may live in peace and harmony.

A CFO needs to go beyond being "the finance operations expert" to become a corporate strategist who can enhance the firm's valuation and brand, and win over stakeholders' trust and goodwill.

Men are weak. They accomplish the worst only by remaining unaware of it until they grow accustomed to it and find themselves justified by the "greatness" of rigorous discipline and the orders of an irresistible leader.

Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.

History's tragedies reveal great men: but those tragedies are provoked by the mediocre.