A Leader can’t lead unless He knows where He’s going.
You want to be Hand of the King? You want to rule? This is what ruling is, lying on a bed of weeds, ripping them out by the root, one by one, before they strangle you in your sleep.
You spent your whole life believing you had no control, that you were a follower. Take whatever it gives you, and lead.[to Caleb]
You must believe in your leaders. They can suffer reversals, defeats… But you must give them a chance to prove just why they rose in the first place.
To estimate the intelligence of a leader, look at the men he keeps around him.
The perception of credibility leads to the perception of power. Because people don’t follow experts anymore, they follow titles.
Sometimes, the hardest part about being a leader is letting go and trusting the ones you’ve trained to make the call themselves.
Sometimes, as a leader, you have to make tough calls in order to serve the greater good.
Soldiers understand losing is part of the journey, so long as their leader does not believe it the destination.
People follow leaders.
People find it hard to trust a leader without a wife and family.
Middle management means that you have just enough responsibility that you got to listen when people talk, and not so much that you can tell anybody to go f*** themselves.
