A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

The cautious seldom err.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

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

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?