Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his actions.