“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
“A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.”
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
“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.”