“Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.”
“That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.”
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”
“Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.”
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
“The golden rule for every business man is this: ''Put yourself in your customer's place.''”
“A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.”
“Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.”
“The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.”
“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.”
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
“Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.”
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
“Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.”
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.”
“A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.”
“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”
“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.”
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”
“It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.”
“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
“A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.”
“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
“It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.”
“I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.”
“The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.”