- Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ~John D. Rockefeller
- Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. ~General Colin Powell
- Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. ~John Zenger
- He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. ~Aristotle
- I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. ~Herbert Swope
- I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier. ~Oprah Winfrey
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein
- I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. ~Lao Tzu
- I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader
- I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. ~Mohandas Gandhi
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