I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. Robert E. Lee
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. Lao Tzu
Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them. Roy T. Bennett
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. Warren Bennis
Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. Patrick Lencioni
If people believe you have a plan, that you know where you are going, they will follow you instinctively. Robert Greene
True leaders actually do very little leading. Instead, they create and maintain a framework that allows others to lead, create, and grow. Neil Strauss
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. Rachel Maddow
Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself. Sam Walton (Walmart)
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. Peter F. Drucker
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. Noam Chomsky
A leader takes people where they would never go on their own. Hans Finzel
A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them. Brandon Sanderson
One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Roy T. Bennett
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela
In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn’t necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. Seth Godin
I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. Tupac Shakur
Leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. John Gardner
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard
