Theodore White Quotes

I'm a leader.

Leadership is influence.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

I’ve never formally been number 1 in the Party, but everybody keeps hanging around me, showing me deference. I have to give the nod on every important decision. I carry too much weight and that is not good for the Party or the state.

The person who manages the state is me.

Leadership does matter.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

Leaders must lead.

I like being a boss.

Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.

I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

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

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

Be the chief but never the lord.

I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.