Quotes: Leader

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

I never could be a partisan leader – a man of one idea.

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I’d get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they’re first to join.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.