Leadership Quotes
“World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”
“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.”
-- Marian Anderson
“In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.”
-- Bill Kristol
“It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.”
-- Ruth J. Simmons
“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
-- Henry A. Kissinger