The repository contains 30 quotes in the category “Leadership.”
Showing quotes 1 through 20 in the category “Leadership.” Page 1 2.
Make friends of your enemies, or kill them.
Don’t tell your friends anything you wouldn’t tell your enemies.
Don’t listen to what people are saying. Listen to why they’re saying it.
Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1815 — 1898
Abuse of power is the exercise of authority in a manner unpleasant to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
1842 — 1914?
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
1834 — 1902
If you can’t lead yourself, you can’t lead others.
It is a difficult task to be a leader when no one will follow you.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Bruce Springsteen
1949 —
Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him?
As he wrote in his diary during the first night the White House was open, November 1, 1800:
Before I end my Letter I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.
President John Adams
1735 — 1826
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.
Tommy Lasorda
1927 —
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890 — 1969
Great men are not always wise.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
He who does something at the head of one regiment will eclipse him who does nothing a the head of a hundred.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist. The problem is entirely the same in both cases: to know how much oil one must put with one’s vinegar.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
Put not your trust in princes.
Showing quotes 1 through 20 in the category “Leadership.” Page 1 2.
