Feared Leadership Quotes & Sayings

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since. — Robert Metcalfe

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m. — Betty Cuthbert

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it. — Carl Hiaasen

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos

There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary. — James Bay

Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded. — Benjamin Franklin

And this is the judgment: q the light has come into the world, and r people loved the darkness rather than the light because s their works were evil. — Anonymous

The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly what happens in a structure that systematically diffuses responsibility. It is because managers fear blame-time that they diffuse responsibility; however such a diffusion inevitably means that someone, somewhere is going to become a scapegoat when things go wrong. — Robert Jackall

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Competition always makes you stronger and better. Competition is feared only by the weak. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed. — Woody Allen

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not. — Marlee Matlin