My own definition…

… of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

– Field Marshall Montgomery

Leadership is….

… the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

– Erskine Bowles

A leader takes…

…. people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

– Rosalyn Carter

There are only…

… two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

– Albert Einstein

Lead me….

… follow me, or get out of my way.

–  General George Patton

Outstanding leaders…

… go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.

– Sam Walton

To have long term…

… success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

-Pat Riley

You gain strength….

…. courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The very essence…

….. of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

– Reverend Theodore Hesburgh

I start with…

… the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

– Ralph Nader