Quotes About Leadership

If leaders exploit public fears to herd people in directions they might not otherwise choose, then fear itself can quickly become a self-perpetuating and freewheeling force that drains national will and weakens national character, diverting attention from real threats deserving of healthy and appropriate fear and sowing confusion about the essential choices that every nation must constantly make about its future.

If "what is the size of the market?" is the first question your company asks itself, then you are taking the wrong road to success.

It's a conundrum. "Marketing is too important," said David Packard, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard, "to be left to the marketing people." On the other hand, marketing is too complicated to be left to management people who have little experience in marketing and who don't understand its principles.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

Thus was born an astonishing new idea that governments justify their existence only by promoting possibilities for prosperity and happiness among all those they rule over.

The prime minister did not wholly believe in the past or in any lessons that might be drawn from it.

I am the King. I tell. I am not told. I am the verb, sir. I am not the object. (King George III)

Never be prime minister at the start of a war, Nessie [..] The man that lead you into it isn't the one to lead you out of it.

One has given one's white-gloved hand to hands that were steeped in blood and conversed politely with men who have personally slaughtered children. One has waded through excrement and gore; to be Queen, I have often thought the one essential item of equipment a pair of thigh-length boots.

Sulking in children and the periodic cabinet member.

Tu gli dài l'istruzione, io gli strumenti per resisterle. Insieme formiamo quell'entità che il nostro preside adora: un «team».

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. —ALBERT SCHWEITZER

You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You are here to initiate.

Putting your foot down is a prerequisite to stepping ahead

When today's executives regard programming the same as manufacturing, they imagine that reducing the cost of programming is similarly simple and effective. Unfortunately, those rules don't apply anymore.

Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.

Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.

When there is a need for heroes and they are so inconsiderate as not to invent themselves, others take up the task for them.

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. Antoine de Saint-Exupery A