Leadership

"I would rather have a general who is a coward than one who is reckless."

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."

"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."

"He who learns the right way and then follows it acquires knowledge and brings it to the hearts of those who observe him."

"In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

"Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent."

"If you cry 'forward', you must make clear the direction in which to go."

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge."

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"It is always commendable to follow great examples, but it is even more commendable to create great examples."

"You have to be a leader that people want to follow, not have to follow."

"Good leaders don't make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done."

"Extreme ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world."

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy's."

"You cannot become a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."