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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 true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his read more
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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
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.'.
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.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.
A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.
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.
