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“I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.”

“Leaders are not born, they're made.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.”

“Leadership is defined by results not attributes.”