Random Quote
The old are in a second childhood.
-- Aristophanes
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
-- Nehru
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
-- Democritus
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
-- Ralph Nader
If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?
-- Confucius
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
-- John F Kennedy
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
-- Jesse Jackson
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
-- Harold Geneen
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
-- Marian Anderson
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
-- Evenius
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
-- Walter J Lippman
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
-- Andre Malraux
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
-- Max DePree
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
-- Eric Hoffer
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
-- Anthony Jay
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
-- Ray Kroc
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
-- Henry Kissinger
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
-- Lao Tse
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
-- Theodore H White
You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.
-- Dwight D Eisenhower