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Here are a few other good ones:

“Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.”
(Lao Tzu)

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
(George Patton)

“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
(Adlai Stevenson)

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The who knows ‘how’ will always have a job. The person who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss. – Diane Ravitch

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. – H. Ross Perot

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. – Warren Buffet

When things go wrong in your command, start searching for the reason in increasingly large circles around your own two feet. – Gen. Bruce Clarke