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.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly read more

The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be read more

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse read more

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian read more

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian Anderson.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the read more

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.