* One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold Glasow

* The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

* One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard

* Society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

* Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
James L. Fisher

* Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode

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

* The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

* To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
Christina Baldwin

* The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
J.Richard Clarke

* A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do.
Anthony T. Dadovano

* 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

* The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
Max DePree

* The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

* It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
Thomas Wolfe