Quotes About Leadership

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance.

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

That's just to start?' 'Yeah.' 'Giu. So what happens after that?' 'Whatever needs to happen. That's the whole point of being strategic.

Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.

Greetings, human. We come in peace. Take me to your leader so I may serve you.' 'What?' 'Fried or baked?' 'Uh—?' 'Serve, get it? That's a first-contact joke.

Chain of command was always a nominal concept in the division, you trusted people to do their job right.

Prime Minister Adolphus sat at a broad desk at the far end, surrounded by a cluttered nest of bookcases and cheap metal filing cabinets.

Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he'd become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?

People will look at you, what you're doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they'll want to do the same for themselves. That's when you'll start to run into resistance. That's where the politics begins. And that's the dirtiest fight there is.

I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.

I've never met a good politician.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

Christ, chief, what do they do to these people? Are we working for psychopaths

Without its captain, the blackhawk would have to obey an Edenist.