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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." »Giordano Bruno
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"No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming." »Warren Bennis, From an article in a meeting industry magazine.
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"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'" »Lao Tzu
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"The majority-rule society has produced nothing more than heart-ache and intolerance. Throughout this majority-rule period it has been the members of the minority who have made an impact. It only takes one person to kill a hundred. It only takes one dictator to oppress millions. For better or for worse, it is the daring few who have shaped this so-called majority-rule society." »Jonar Nader
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." »John Simon
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant." »John Simon
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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." »Max De Pree
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"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader." »Harry S Truman
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"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell
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"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be." »Rosalynn Carter
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"The difference between a boss and a leader a boss says, 'Go' - a leader says, 'Let's go'" »E. M. Kelly
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"sometimes, as a leader, it's not so much as you do, but sometimes, what you don't do" »Coach Mac - Xaverian, Westwood, MA
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"He that would be a leader must be a bridge." »Welsh Proverb
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"One man with courage is a majority." »Thomas Jefferson
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"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." »Henry Kissinger
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"The crowd gives the leader new strength." »Evenius
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"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader" »Benjamin Disraeli
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"A leader is a dealer in hope." »Napolean Bonaparte
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"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." »John Erksine
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"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." »John C. Maxwell
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"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision." »Pope John Paul II
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so." »Friedrich von Schiller
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"One man with courage makes a majority." »Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
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"In economics, the majority is always wrong." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader." »Tacitus
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"Today a reader--tomorrow a leader." »W. Fusselman
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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." »Andrew Carnegie
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"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich
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