Quotes About Leadership

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.

I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

Each team always has that one power player, even Carmelo. Those are the guys who would represent the logo.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.