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Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but read more
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the read more
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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.
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly read more
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will read more
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
