Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERShot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWhat is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNo man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThey may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever 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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAlways try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER