Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
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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.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
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