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The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and that's a sign of being a good leader or a good president. We usually don't expect that of almost anyone else in any profession, in particular, in public life.
Sep 28, 2025
There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.
Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader cant just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.
Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
A leader leads by example not by force.
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
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