Leadership Quotes

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I’d be a fearless leader. I’d be an alpha type.

As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.