Power flows…

… to the man who knows how. Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

– Elbert Hubbard

Dictators….

… are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

– Jan Masaryk

A leader….

… has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

– Ralph Lauren

Without leadership…

… command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

– Eric Shinseki

No one…

…has ever become poor by giving

– Anne Frank

In organisations….

… real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

– Margaret Wheatly

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

Leadership is…

…  the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it

– Warren G Bennis

A leader has…

…. the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

– Ralph Nader

 

The exercise of…

….. power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both

– Vaclav Havel