Power & Leadership Sayings

May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbours, and to the east and west by fish.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

If you are not feared, you are not a leader.

I have been as good a friend to you as you have been to me. I don't care a snap for your laws. I have got the power, and I'll use it.

Nothing is so annoying as to have two people talking at once, unless it is when no one will talk to you.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

I could hear a fly walking across the room.

I have been working so hard that I sometimes forget to eat.

I have lived to see the day when electricity is no longer a toy, but a powerful agent in the service of mankind.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Hell, there are no rules here—we're trying to accomplish something.

My father was a director of the local gymnasium, and my mother was a woman of strong character and great intelligence.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The meaning of life does not consist in the mere fact of existing, but in the power of perceiving and making known our existence, and that of others.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.