The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.