Jonathan Brandis Quotes

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

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.

Nothing can be more entirely inefficient than the militia under the existing organization … Without arms, in nine cases out of ten badly officered, they merely comply with the letter of the law, and repair to their colors, not from the elevated feeling of duty to their country, ... but to avail themselves of an indulgence, without restraint, in all the immoralities of legalized misrule.

Two captains will sink the ship.

Most corporate disasters are driven not by market forces, but by CEOs messing things up.

Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters--perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair--may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple as that.

It seems that the reins of government are held with too feeble a hand..

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim to the top

In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.

Baseball is a poorly run business.

My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.

When your leader is misbehaving, it's very easy for other people to follow that.

I was always getting in trouble for whispering in class.

If I'm DJing, and you stop me and take a picture? That's annoying.

The Cowboys fan in me is getting increasingly sick and tired of watching Jerry Jones enable his team to lose without fear.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

Obama never listened to anyone, always thought he was smarter than every expert in the room, and treated every meeting as an opportunity to lecture everyone else. This led to real-world disasters, like Syria and the rise of Isis.

Poor leaders have a certain style and that's the only style they have.

Michael Gove was one of the worst things to ever happen to the education system in this country. David Cameron is the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had.

The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.