The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the read more

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends read more

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

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

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

Leadership is an action, not a position.

Leadership is an action, not a position.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. read more

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.