Quotes On Leadership

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Some day I shall be President.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.