Quotes About Leadership

The test of greatness as applied to a political leader is the success of his plans and his enterprises, which means his ability to reach the goal for which he sets out; whereas the final goal set up by the political philosopher can never be reached; for human thought may grasp truths and picture ends which it sees like clear crystal, though such ends can never be completely fulfilled because human nature is weak and imperfect. The

Surely nobody believes that these chosen representatives of the nation are the choice spirits or first-class intellects.

In the thirteen years of my struggle for Germany, I have had to put up with so much persecutions and personal attacks that I gradually really learned to put the great cause, which I serve, above the miserable own self. Letter of November 16, 1932 to v. Papen

Unicamente un huracan de pasiones ardientes puede cambiar el destino de los pueblos, mas despertar pasion es solo atributo de quien en si mismo siente el fuego pasional. Que cada escritor quede junto a su tintero ocupado de teorias, si su saber y su talento le bastan para eso, que para Fuhrer no nacio, ni fue elegido.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality?

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude, they are the works of personal genius and personal efficiency

In the age of slaves, the freeman had still outnumbered them, and now, in the "age of freedom", for the first time liberty had fled from the majority. Genius, statecraft, the very power of leadership having become suspect in a world where the one essential criterion - mediocrity - gives us the comfortable assurance that no leader shall possess any qualities whatsoever above our own immediate comprehension, man has made sure that no man shall be free.

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough' and 'Competent'. Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for.

He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.

in contrast to Europe, where between 1894 and 1914 five heads of state, three prime ministers, and one president were assassinated.

When Lascelles suggested to George VI that he give Hardinge six months' leave to reflect on his position, the king replied, "Certainly not—he might come back.")

Peter Drucker once noted that "no institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under the leadership of perfectly normal human beings." Warren Buffet made the same point more pithily: "I only invest in companies which any fool can run, because some day some fool will run it.

The Communist Party also claims that it is trying to promote political meritocracy: that is, a political system that aims to select and promote leaders on the basis of talents rather than on the basis of how many votes they can muster in an election.

I'm passing the baton on son, you go run with it.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I am a big fan of Virat Kohli. He is a captain who always wants to win matches on the field and I love that passion in him.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.