Quotes About Leadership

he became King of Portugal, King of Naples, King of Sicily, the Duke of Milan

openly told his crew that the conspirators had resolved to kill him on Easter Day

Magellan expected to see all four captains at Easter mass but only one, Luis de Mendoza, of Victoria, arrived.

Charismatic leaders rely primarily on the power of their own personalities to justify their office. They don't fit well into bureaucratic structures and project an almost 'missionary

King Boris is going to meet us with his train, which he actually drives himself. What hard times some of these little kings have fallen upon.

Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain

I have to go. Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me.

His Excellency today appealed to the Officers of this Army to consider themselves as a band of brothers cemented by the justice of a common cause. -General Orders of George Washington, Valley Forge

I HEARD BULLETS WHISTLE AND BELIEVE ME, THERE IS SOMETHING CHARMING IN THE SOUND. —LETTER FROM THE TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD GEORGE WASHINGTON DESCRIBING HIS FIRST TASTE OF BATTLE T

Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain. The captain I had to obey.

OUR FREEDOM DEPENDS ON THE EXERTIONS OF A FEW PATRIOTIC INDIVIDUALS. IT IS WITH GRIEF THAT WE LEARN THAT THE CONGRESS IS MADE UP OF SO FEW OF THEM. —DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, PHILADELPHIA PHARMACIST

When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN

If one plays on fear, takes away any remotely complicated ideas, and offers people a sense of confidence and right, one's followers will beat to death any enemy they are pointed at.

Every so often, one encounters a woman of her type who reaches past the distractions of position, pleasure, and society's assumptions to become something greater. And even more rarely, one finds a woman who craves not power, but the chance to create something new.

A British Cabinet Minister finds that To lie in the nude Is not at all rude But to lie in the House is obscene and a government is rocked

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.

It's a sad reality if a guy like Charles Koch doesn't qualify as a role model. It's just sad.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.