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

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

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

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

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

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.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.