Quotes About Leadership

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

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

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!

Half a century ago in this court I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for George. And here I am today I am not better than General De Wet. I am not better than President Steyn. Like them I stand firm in my principles. I can do no different. So help me God.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Be a model and don't wait to be modeled

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.

In the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets.

Democracy passes into despotism.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

How, then, might we contrive… one noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city?

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Let there be one man who has a city obedient to his will, and he might bring into existence the ideal polity about which the world is so incredulous.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.