Quotes About Leadership

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

I shall go to Korea.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.