Quotes on Leadership

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.