Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.