9 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Leadership

George Bernard Shaw quotes on leadership

29. One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

71. A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence: there are too few of them. Until a movement shows itself capable of spreading among brigands, it can never hope for a political majority.

112. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.[1]

133. Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.

180. The nauseous sham goodfellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

195. Law is blind without counsel. The counsel men agree with is vain: it is only the echo of their own voices. A million echoes will not help you to rule righteously. But he who does not fear you and shews you the other side is a pearl of the greatest price. Slay me and you go blind to your damnation. The greatest of God's names is Counsellor; and when your Empire is dust and your name a byword among the nations the temples of the living God shall still ring with his praise as Wonderful! Counsellor! the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

219. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. [6]

236. The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.

249. Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly.