leadership
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”
“One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?””
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”