While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

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 am ever a gentle maiden, " she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.

The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

I love Las Vegas. I like that Las Vegas has everything. Everything and anything you want to do, you can do in Las Vegas.

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America.