Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. - Thomas J. Watson

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. - Tom Peters

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis A. Peer

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. - John C. Maxwell

A leader is best

When people barely know that he exists.

- Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. - Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord