You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they're not there to learn about that. They're there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty.
To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
In America, public opinion is the leader.
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
Rick is the leader and I don't have a problem with that.