The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
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