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Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. Peter Ferdinand Drucker -Harold J. Seymour.

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.

Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.

A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. -Unkown.

No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the end and at all costs. Charles deGaulle -Harold J. Seymour.

And when we think we lead, we are most led.

There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.

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. Donald H. McGannon -Lao Tzu.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.