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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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

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

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

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

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.