Joshua Chamberlain Quotes

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something that people want.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

What matters is what happens among the powerful.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.

It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.

We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.

I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

The directing thing, to do it well, I think you have to have a hell of a lot more discipline than I do, or be a lot more willing to really take charge of whole large group of people than I feel comfortable doing - because a director really has to run everything, and be very confident in their ability to do so.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.