The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
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