Dwight D. Eisenhower
American general and 34th U.S. president, 1890-1969
22 quotes.
Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- 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.
- Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
- Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things but I would say character is really integrity.
- For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!
- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- I 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.
- If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
- Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
- 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.
- 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.
- Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
- The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
- The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity.
- The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
- We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
- What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.