Group Leadership Quotes

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

So you [Romans] when you have got together in a body, let yourselves be guided by those whom singly you would never think of being advised by.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

I don't like the five-person group dynamic. I just never have. It doesn't make sense to me that six people would just sit in a circle and say, 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval.' 'I have something funny to say,' 'No, I have something funny to say, me!' It's hard to make plans.

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

If three come together let them pick a leader.

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

If the children of a group's founder are to take over that group, they need the endorsement of society.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

A single Executive may be responsible, but a numerous one cannot be responsible.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

People don't just show up and lie down in the middle of the street some place out of nothing. Somebody said meet me there, let's get together, and let's do this thing. The interesting thing is that we don't know who all of the leaders of these groups are, but we know that they're out there, and we know a new group of leadership is being created. It shows you that leadership can come from anywhere.

If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.

I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that.

There's always got to be one adult in the band, I think.

I am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.