Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.