In our system leadership is by consent not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Character matters leadership descends from character.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership you have to be obsessed in some way.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership which include attention to aesthetics and the environment nurturing affection intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do to achieve what they want to achieve.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers.