"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"Among the blind the one eyed is king."

"Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay."

"True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders."

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."

"The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd."

"There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant."

"When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!"

"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

"It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top."

"Leadership is action, not position."

"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

"There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led."

"The person who has no enemies has no followers."

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

"Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing."

"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."

"Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men."

"To lead people walk behind them."

"I'm their leader, I've got to follow them."

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

"Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided."

"Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time."

"The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols."

"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."

"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

"The penalty of leadership is loneliness."

"The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine."

"Morale is faith in the man at the top."

"When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king."

"Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind."

"Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain."

"Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function."