Intelligent Leadership Quotes

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

The district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.