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

“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.”

“You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.”

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

“Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“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.”

“To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!”

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

“Leadership is defined by results not attributes.”