The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.