More quotations tagged with “leadership”
Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
—Casey Stengel
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
—Adolf Hitler
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man—these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity.… History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.
—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
—Mother Teresa