"Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people"
" Where there is no vision, the people perish"
" A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops".
" Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"
" The leader has to be practical and realistic, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist "
" The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on "
" Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together ''
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,
or to get all the credit for doing it"
" The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. "
" Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity "
" The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers "
"When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally"
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership"
"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way