Leadership must be established from the top down.
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.
Men are lead by trifles.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Morale is faith in the man at the top.
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers — not their minds.
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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