Leadership…

cannot really be taught. It can only be learned

— Harold Geneen

Don’t waste your…

energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it

– Tina Fey

It is absurd….

… that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself

– Latin Proverb

The best people…

…. possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed

– Ernest Hemingway

A competent leader…

… can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralise the best of troops

– John J Pershing

The ability to…

… make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered

— David Heenan and Warren Bennis

Let him who…

… would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

– Thomas Carlyle

Your first and…

… foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you

– Peter Drucker

Good leadership…

… consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people

– John D. Rockefeller

The key to Leadership…

… is not knowledge but understanding.

– Paradigms of Leadership