Don't let your constituency capture you.

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

In the camps we learned to distinguish between good superiors and bad. The criterion was simple and infallible: one forbids everything that is not specifically permitted, the other permits everything that is not specifically forbidden.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally."

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.