Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

War will make some leaders great, but makes their people suffer.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.