One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can.

Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care.

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.