“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”

—Sir Winston Churchill

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

—Brian Tracy

“You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”

—Ken Kesey

“The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”

—Eric Hoffer

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

—Andrew Carnegie

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

—John Zenger