Quotes About Leadership

it is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.

Should a survey be made to determine the reason why so many seemingly educated men and women fail in their after-college years or should it be made to determine the reason for the different earning powers of the masses, there would be no doubt but that imagination played the important part. Such a survey would show that it is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.

Great leaders possess tremendous long-term clarity about what they're trying to accomplish both personally and in their careers. And it's this long-term perspective that builds character, wisdom, and self-discipline. Long-term thinking is the hallmark of high-performance living, yet it's often neglected in favor of the treadmill of urgent activities of the moment.

Well hath he been called one of the architects of civilization.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

You can't trust anybody with power.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President

Hopefully, Donald Trump is just warming up. There is a lot of swamp to drain.

Widely known as the best horseman in the colonies, Washington was so strong he could break a walnut between his thumb and first finger. Washington

President Trump expressed one simple fact in his inaugural address that has eluded so many of America's recent presidents: his primary job is to lead the United States. Trump doesn't want to be the president of the international order, or president of some collective group of nations. He is—and only wants to be—the president of one country

He's the boss, after all," Troy thought as he left on his wife's arm.

In a time of chaos, it is the micro-manager who ascends

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.

And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.

He who establishes a tyranny and does not kill Brutus, and he who establishes a democratic regime and does not kill the sons of Brutus, will not last long.