“The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.” 

― James C. Collins

“The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.” 

― James C. Collins

“When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don’t need excessive controls.” 

― James C. Collins,

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” ― Jim Rohn

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” 

― Abraham Lincoln

“If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.”

Vinoba Bhave

“Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.”

J. C. Watts

“Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.”

Simon Sinek

“Leadership is a mindset in action. So don’t wait for the title. Leadership isn’t something that anyone can give you – you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.”

Travis Bradberry

“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”

Mao Zedong