Guide

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.

Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed.

To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.

Description before prescription is the trait of a leader!!!

What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why.

Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

A true visionary has a purpose for those without vision!

There is a wonderful power that comes when you know that someone will achieve something great due to your help.

We hear rumors of a man who leads a rebellion in the forest, determined to drive the invader out. It's said wherever wolf howls or hawk cries, he appears.

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.

Be a model for the world, never a critic.

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.

So now I get the scepter?' Jason.

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.