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 getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to read more

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

The first step to leadership is servanthood. -John Maxwell.

The first step to leadership is servanthood. -John Maxwell.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton.

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton.