Quotes About Leadership

Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.

I remember sitting at the witness table listening to this litany of woe and thinking, What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm.

As Obama would tell me one occasion, "I can't defend it unless I understand it." I rarely saw him rush to a decision when circumstances allowed him time to gather information, analyze, and reflect...When the occasion demand it, though, Obama could make a big decision - a life-and-death decision - very fast." Page 299

The Innovator's Prescription,

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

I-don't-wants hold the key to your success," rich dad would say. Because I, too, do not want to fix toilets, I shop hard for a property manager who does fix toilets.

Everything we think we know about entrepreneurs is WRONG!

Una persona inteligente contrata a gente más inteligente que ella.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes." ? Joseph Stalin

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts

He is a king whom emperors have served.

When the power inherent in a position of authority is used to fortify that position, the institution's purpose is subverted. Behaviors are not aligned with the institution';s professed goals; rather they are skewed to preserve the rank, power, salaries, and security of rank-holders. -- Somebodies and Nobodies, by Robert W. Fuller

Hablando en serio: los que obedecen suelen ser una copia exacta de los que mandan.

But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and seek to harry him and bully him into some condition pleasing to themselves. The democracy which the Reformation brought into the Christian Church rages in their bosoms like a fire; they would deny that they regard their clergyman as their spiritual hired hand, whom they boss and oversee for his own good, but that is certainly the impression they give to observers.

Don't let the title mislead you, Arlbeth told her. The king is simply the visible one. I'm so visible, in fact, that most of the important work has to be done by other people. Nonsense, said Tor. Arlbeth chuckled. Your loyalty does you honor, but you're in the process of becoming too visible to be effective yourself, so what do you know about it?

But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--

Lack of adaptability is the root cause of much trouble in large organizations.

This is why we need you," said Much comfortably. "You're a pessimist and a good planner.

The soldier looked back at the King as the King looked at him; for a moment he wondered if he should bow, but the King's look seemed to wish to forestall him. The soldier saw a face for whom he would be willing to carry colors into battle once more, and the memory of his colonel seemed to fail and fade nearly to oblivion.

First rule: If your dog doesn't do what you want, it's your fault.

In all the odium the British generals have attracted, it should be noticed that it was the British, not the French or the Germans, who created the tank and brought it into action and in so doing changed the face of war.