Quotes About Leadership

Because he knew money was power. And because he, however he came upon the idea, knew that there would have to be someone to make a change in the distant future.

And in the world of power you have to follow the rules of power, and whether you like it or not, one of these rules is to brag. You must impress others, show them their place. You have to become the biggest gorilla in the pack, the alpha male who is followed by everyone else.

Even the reverend did: visiting Martin Luther King in his parsonage, soon after his home had been bombed, a journalist was about to sink into an armchair when he was alerted to a couple of loaded guns on it. 'Just for self-defence,' King explained.

When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

An empire that could have stood sound under a single sovereign was wrecked through being run by sundry rulers.

To understand Alexander well, it is necessary to follow his heart more closely than his policies, so I investigate the king's character through the mirror of the lives of his lovers.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

B)ut really, it doesn't matter how big the army is—we just have to deal with the enemies at the very front...We don't have to defeat a whole army all at once. If we fight smart and we don't panic, we'll be good.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

I am the government.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.