The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the read more

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to read more

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends read more

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. 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.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead read more

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.