Quotes about Leadership

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each instrument could do its own work, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation, like the statues of Daedalus or the tripods made by Hephaestus, of which Homer relates that Of their own motion they entered the conclave of Gods on Olympus, as if a shuttle should weave of itself, and a plectrum should do its own harp playing.

What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by the women?

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.