Quotes About Leadership

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

But our Great Leader Chairman Mao told us, 'Learn to swim from swimming.' We should learn from taking part in revolutionary activities and from active labor.

Often I look back on the wasted years of the Mao Tze-tung era and the madness of the Cultural Revolution. I feel deeply saddened that so many lives were needlessly sacrificed. I was glad when the Cultural Revolution was officially declared a national catastrophe but I regret the Communist Party leadership's inability or unwillingness to repudiate Mao's policy in explicit terms.

Without an army, what can politicians achieve?

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

Step up and don't be afraid

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

Siccome l'uomo russo nei momenti decisivi conserva la presenza di spirito, e fa quel che c'è da fare senza inoltrarsi in altri ragionamenti, così, prendendo a destra al primo incrocio, egli gridò: "Forza su, rispettabili amici", e si lanciò al galoppo senza preoccuparsi troppo di pensare a dove conducesse la strada che aveva preso.

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Not all companies have a Purpose—but enduringly successful ones do. Purpose

Leaders do not simply invent a Purpose; they discover it, while at the same time developing a strategy and ensuring that Purpose and strategy support each other.

If a company's reputation-building efforts appear to be somehow separate from its business model, then you suspect they are primarily a corrective to its naturally amoral or immoral inclinations—a medicine to relieve the symptoms but not a cure for the basic disease.

top management's purpose needs to be serving customers, not maximizing profit, if it is to achieve long-term competitive advantage.4

competition between companies is at least in part a competition between different moral ideas.

Niall Fitzgerald, former chairman of Unilever, has pointed out that social responsibility is good business because "we need a constant flow of talented people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [who] ask themselves if this is an organization whose values they share."6

Among Agatha's enviable qualities, perhaps the most significant was her ability to thrive in this man's world. Following the rules but managing also to rise above them.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

You can't impart what you don't possess.

You must never forget that dealing with a monarch is not like dealing with an ordinary man," Ibn Sina said. "A king is not like you or me. He drops a hand carelessly and someone like us is put to death. Or he wiggles a finger and someone is allowed to live. That is absolute power, and no man born of woman is able to resist it. It drives even the best of monarchs slightly mad.

People in power fight to stay in power," says the Prophet. "This is the nature of power.

He wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.