Leadership Quotes

What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.

30104 quotes

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