Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhowerwas an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth14 October 1890
CountryUnited States of America
Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.