We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it no real success is possible no matter whether it is on a section gang a football field in an army or in an office.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Great companies in the way they work start with great leaders.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Leaders grasp nettles.

Today a reader tomorrow a leader.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

It is after all the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Without initiative leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball getting the crowd involved getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Leadership is influence.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Example is leadership.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them.