Quotes About Leadership

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

The sad fact is, because we've had a failed policy and failed leadership, now we're having to rely on Russians and the Iranians to go into Syria to fight and destroy ISIS.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.