“If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.”

“You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.”

“Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.”

“Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.”

“A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.”

“In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.”

“I discovered that all these rulers were men. What they had in common was an avaricious and distorted personality, a never-ending appetite for money, sex and unlimited power. They were men who sowed...”

“The presence of Knowledge Based Trust in organizations gives rise to a high level of interpersonal trust amongst their members and creates cohesive units out of a loose bunch of people.”