Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail Quotes

“What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“What others may perceive as a gamble, leaders understand to be merely a calculated risk. In the face of superior odds, a leader must have the courage to innovate.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“A true leader makes a decision and then works to make the decision right.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“Wise leaders court hunger like a muse, and they summon her continuously. Complacency, arrogance, malevolence, apathy, and comfort can easily chase her away.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“Hunger, it should be noted, is different from ambition. Where ambition is largely about self-aggrandizement, hunger is more about service and significance.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“Leadership begins and ends with hunger. The hunger of an individual to risk his or her own personal comfort and affluence and attack the status quo is not only the initiation of leadership but also its sustaining force.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“What really needs to be learned from other successful leaders is their thought processes, their reasons, their methods of emotional control, their strategies, their abilities in dealing with other people, their subtle touches.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“the experience of others becomes invaluable. It acts as a shortcut to bypass the long and painful process of trial and error. Indeed, all wise leaders learn from others, both contemporary and historical.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“Certainly, experience is a large ingredient, although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year’s experience repeated thirty times.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“It’s the men, and the leadership they follow, who make all the difference.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year’s experience repeated thirty times.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year’s experience repeated thirty times.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“You are in command. Your job is so challenging, so complex, so never-ending that most people could never come close to understanding the load you carry. You are thrust into impossible situations with little time and usually even less information upon which to make a decision.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail