Quotes About Leadership

en política, la memoria podía alargarse mucho.

people who were polite to his mistress. Lloyd George spoke to the group. "That German ship delivered the guns to Mexico after all. It simply went to another port and quietly unloaded. So nineteen American troops died for nothing. It's a terrible humiliation for Woodrow Wilson.

As in every country, Walter thought gloomily, army officers were pressing their political masters to take the first steps to war. It

Grigori had become good at that, and in consequence had won the loyalty of his platoon.

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war—the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.

Repress those who complain, rather than address their discontents.

So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness.

In 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.

He had been angry for years about the disgraceful way the priory was run, and now he had a chance to set all those things right himself. Suddenly he was not sure he could. It was not just a question of seeing what ought to be done and ordering that it should be so. People had to be persuaded, property had to be managed, money had to be found. It was a job for a wise head. The responsibility would be heavy.

Woodrow Wilson was the first American president ever to leave the country during his term of office.

Arrogance was the vice of good leaders. - Prior Philip

Galliéni, a crusty old soldier, had been brought out of retirement. He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way.

Therefore I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office." "Yes!" George punched the air. "He's done it! He's gone!" What Maria felt was not so much triumph as relief. She had woken up from a nightmare. In the dream, the highest officers in the land had been crooks, and no one could do anything to stop them.

John Locke and other philosophers said a government's authority could come only from the consent of the people.

quick to comfort and advise, slow to command or punish.

La característica más asombrosa del liderazgo soviético de los anteriores sesenta y cinco años era la negativa a afrontar los hechos.

one of Churchill's jibes about Attlee: "An empty car drew up and Clem got out." The

the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.