Quotes About Leadership

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

Never march by flank in front of an army in position. This principle is absolute.

Every French soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you.

What is the throne?—a bit of wood gilded and covered with velvet. I am the state—I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public—people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Respect the burden.

Chief of the Army.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Imagination governs the world.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?