Leadership

“A house divided against itself cannot stand”

“A system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system”

“A teacher, a really good sensei, is never a giver of 'truth'; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that the student must discover for himself”

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate”

“All wars are planned by older men in council rooms apart”

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”

“Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for”

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them”

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”

“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman”

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex”

“In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were their rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves.'”

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”

“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting”

“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“Organize, agitate, educate must be our war cry”

“Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it”

“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything”

“Speak softly and carry a big stick”

“Strong people always have strong weaknesses too”

“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom”

“The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”

“There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace”

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning”

“We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”

“What brings no benefit to the hive, brings none to the bee”

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle”

“When they go low, we go high”

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds”

“Yes we can”