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The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.
-Italian Proverb
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The right man comes at the right time.
-Italian Proverb
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Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.
-Italian Proverb
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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-Anon.
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If you get too far in front of your troops, you start looking like the enemy.
-Anon.
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Among the blind the one eyed is king.
-Proverb
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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.
-Proverb
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Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.
-Proverb
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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.
-Proverb
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What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.
-Proverb
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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
-Proverb
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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
-Proverb
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
-Dean Acheson
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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.
-John Adair
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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
-Ken Adelman
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Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
-Aeschylus
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The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
quoted by Rex Seline in Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram
-Elaine Agather
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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.
-Norman Allen
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Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
-Marian Anderson
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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.
-W. H. Auden
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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.
-Rabbi Ben Azai
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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
-Joel A. Barker
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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
-Joe Batten
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Books about Leadership
