“Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.”
“All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.”
“The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.”
“Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.”
“The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.”
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.”
“The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.”
“Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
“Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.”
“In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.”
“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.”
“I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.”
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”
“When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.”
“We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.”
“The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.”
“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.”
“It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.”
“Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.”
“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”
“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.”
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”
“The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.”
“Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.”
“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.”
“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”
“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”