Effective leaders make it easy for people around them to tell the truth, to be candid and open.
Mangers consolidate the present. Leaders create the future.
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous peopl...
To lead the people walk behind them.
We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future.
Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself.
Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important.
As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is...
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it d...
The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.The duty of government is to help them do it.This is the pasta of politics.The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be...
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
I've got to follow them - I am their leader.
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.