Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Warren G. Bennis

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
Norman Borlaug

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite

Grown men do not need leaders.
Edward Abbey

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Henry Miller

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
Robert Baden-Powell

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Ken Blanchard

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.
Louis Farrakhan

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.
Louis Farrakhan

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Thomas Hardy