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“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.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

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

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“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.”

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“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.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

“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.”

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

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

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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