Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

The U. N. is like a company that can't market its products and whose board members put their own interests first.

Homeland security is a problem. It's a good idea, but it's a problem because the man who runs it is Tom Ridge, and he is someone who has the leadership qualities of a gerbil.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

We live in a time of mediocre leadership—political and intellectual.

Few strong leaders are enthusiastic about their successors.

[Referring to his successor:] The present imbecile chief.

The most important detail separating the West from the East is the existence of administrators who are able to give up power. Former presidents, prime ministers and deputies must be reconciled to leaving power.

We have a crisis in confidence because we have an absence of leadership.

The Secret Service today is awash in managers, not leaders.

The single head may be sick. Who is to conduct the public affairs in that case? When he dies, who are to conduct until a new election?

It takes time, but I have a promising team of younger Ministers, and I am quite sure from amongst them, one leader will emerge.

I think too much of my leadership is done the bad way.

A country without a strong leader will go down.

The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.

The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.

There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.

Every person in this country is suffering because of bad governance.

Here is what I know. When you're running a successful company or an organization, you can take this human equation to the bank: underconfidence plus insecurity always equals paranoia and backstabbing.