Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.