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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
-Ferdinand E. Marcos
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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
-Orison Swett Marden
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.
-Orison Swett Marden
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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
-Orison Swett Marden
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
-Christopher Marlowe
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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women.
-Groucho Marx
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
-Andre Maurois
The Art of Living
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Leadership is action, not position.
-Donald H. Mcgannon
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
-Golda Meir
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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
-Lord Melbourne
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When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
-Herman Melville
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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.
-Henry Miller
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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
-John Milton
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Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
-Tom Morris
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In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
-Rupert Murdoch
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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
-John Naisbitt
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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
-Joe Namath
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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.
-Arthur W. Newcomb
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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Leadership must be established from the top down.
-Sam Nunn
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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
-Roger Von Oech
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A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
-Jules Ormont
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
-Ovid
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
-Vance Packard
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A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
-Ara Parasheghian
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Books about Leadership
