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

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.