Eisenhower Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage. — Lynne Olson

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement — Phil Harding

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head
that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sometimes we miss our blessings in life because they do not arrive the way we think they should. Because our minds are so shallow, so limited, we think our blessings have to come a certain way and sometimes we miss them walking up and down the street. Open your mind: get your blessing. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening. — Seymour Hersh

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

No movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component' ... Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out — Ingrid Newkirk

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little treasure. — Friedrich Nietzsche

But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications ... I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower on LBJ: He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility. — David Pietrusza

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient. — Jean Edward Smith

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'd love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she's a great actress. — Emma Roberts

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Must, never, must avoid, must guard: the minatory commands came the eleven times (from the departing Eisenhower). In contrast, Kennedy's rhetoric on January 20 with a cascade of permissions: the word "let" rang out 14 times. — Rick Perlstein

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform. — Jean Edward Smith

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well, life is like that sometimes", Isabel said. "We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them. — John Scalzi

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement. — Robert A. Heinlein

Music is either sacred or profane. What is sacred accords completely with its nobility, and this is where music most immediately influences life; such influence remains unchanged at all times and in every epoch. Profane music should be altogether cheerful.
Music of a kind that mixes the sacred with the profane is godless and shoddy music wich goes in for expressing feeble, wretched, deplorable feelings, and is just insipid. For it is not serious enough to be sacred and it lacks the chief quality of the opposite kind: cheerfulness. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower