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

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

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

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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