Leadership Quotes
What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.
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"There isn't a tribe for us."Ralph
"We ought to have a chief to decide things."Jack Merridew
"I ought to be chief...I ought to be chief because I am chapter chorister and head boy."Jack Merridew
"Napoleon is always right."Boxer
"The greatness of Napoleon!"Squealer
"Loyalty and obedience is what Napoleon demands."Squealer
"Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure."Napoleon
"I've seen the birth of this movement."Kurtz
"Believe me or not, his talk was like a charm."Marlow
"One cannot govern mankind without taking him as he is."Kurtz
"Leaders are not born; they are forged in adversity"General Kutuzov
"The rules are the only thing we've got."Ralph
"We ought to have a chief to decide things."Jack Merridew
"I'll give the conch to the next person to speak."Ralph
"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy."Old Major
"Napoleon is always right."Boxer
"Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags that would fly off at the first good shake"Marlow
"This station should be something like a beacon on the road towards better things, a center for trade, of course, but also for humanizing, instructing"The Manager
"The preservation of a free Russia is more important than the preservation of the lives of its people"General Kutuzov
"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages."Ralph
"We ought to have a chief to decide things."Jack Merridew
"Some pigs are commanders of others."Squealer
"We pigs are brainworkers."Squealer
"Do you see him? Do you see the sort of man?"The Russian Trader
"I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal"Marlow
"The rules are the only thing we've got."Ralph
"The rules are the only thing we've got."Ralph
"Hands up. Because I'm calling an assembly."Ralph
"Come back! Come back!"Ralph
"He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls into an aggravated witch-dance."Marlow