"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."
(Warren G. Bennis)

"I try to keep in touch with the details . . . I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening."
(Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-)

"If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality."
(Benito Mussolini, his strategy for motivating the masses)

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."
(Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-)

"Inventories can be managed, but people must be led."
(H. Ross Perot)

"It's better for a lion to lead lambs than for a lamb to lead lions."
(Arthur Lotti)

"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
(Warren G. Bennis)

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
Harold S. Geneen)

"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."
(Marian Anderson)

"The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."
(Colin Powell, My American Journey)