Leadership Quotes
What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.
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"He was born for command."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"He was a perfect soldier from the beginning."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"Ender was going to be the greatest commander in history."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it"HAL 9000
"The unsullied will not break."Daenerys Targaryen
"You're a leader. Leaders don't get comfortable."Graff
"A leader must not be visible."Graff
"The test of leadership is not in the battles won but in the lives not squandered."Thufir Hawat
"I choose to stay here and finish the mission."Mark Watney
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that moment I also love him."Ender Wiggin
"Control of the battle is the key to victory."Graff
"The future belongs to those who can bridge worlds"Genly Ai
"The problem of leadership is inevitably a problem of inadequate tools."Thufir Hawat
"The way to win is to find the enemy's weakness and exploit it."Mazer Rackham
"He is too much a leader. Even the older boys respect him."Graff
"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."HAL 9000
"I've got to be the one who gives the orders. I've got to be the boss."Ender Wiggin
"He's a good little soldier."Graff
"I am the son of a Duke. I must be a Duke."Paul Atreides
"A military genius must be ruthless."Mazer Rackham
"To suspect the best, to speak of it, to prepare it, to confirm it is the art of the politician"Thufir Hawat
"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."HAL 9000
"I'm the commander of this mission now."Mark Watney
"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"The other children feared him, but they followed him."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"A leader takes responsibility for their commands."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"The king keeps his throne by knowing how to move like water"Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
"A great man doesn't seek power; power seeks him"Thufir Hawat
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."Zarniwoop
"The dragon has never had a larger following"Daenerys Targaryen