The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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!
Lao-Tsu
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen
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