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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 the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do read more
Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of read more
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. read more
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were read more
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.
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.
No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to read more
No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be read more
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
