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Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.

The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.

Leadership is influence.