Leadership
Quotes

Great leadership arises out of great conflict.
- James MacGregor Burns

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
- Aristotle

How should I be able to govern others when I don't know how to govern myself.
- Rabelais

I would rather persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight d. Eisenhower

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile...They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.
- Ann Richards

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.
- Woodrow Wilson

In the place where there is a leader, do not seek to become a leader. In the place where there is no leader, strive to become a leader.
- Talmud

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, gets up, and goes.
- John Erskine

Intuitive judgment by the leader is essential, but it is effective only if it has been preceded by thorough analysis.
- Warren Bennis