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“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“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.”

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.”

“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!”

“Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

“A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.”

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.”

“You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

“Leaders aren't born they are made.”

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”