Leaders Quotes
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
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.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.