Quotes About Leadership

Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

To rule by knowledge ravages the country.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate.

Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.