Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Trust, but verify.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

I don't really trust a sane person.

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Disarmament requires trust.