Terence McKenna Quotes

Modi failed miserably on most counts. He lacks the vision that a leader needs to possess and a strategy to achieve the vision and outcomes.

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

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

If we had leaders that knew what they were doing, which we don't.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

He [Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu] is the worst manager that I know. I quite the job because I was simply sick of him.

… essentially lacking in the quality of leadership.

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

We are strong country with weak leadership.

I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.

We're a stupid industry led by stupid people.

We're being taken advantage of because we have leaders who are incompetent. They don't even know. When I went out and told them you know in their trade deal they didn't even discuss the devaluation, they didn't even discuss it. At least they started discussing it, only because of me.

John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

Hillary Clinton, all talk. Unfortunately when there is action it's always the wrong decision.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

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.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be very wonderful that their labours, however zealous or affectionate, are frequently useless. For what is the advice that is commonly given? A few general maxims, enforced with vehemence, and inculcated with importunity, but failing for want of particular reference and immediate application.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.