The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.
I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.
I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.