“[A] leader of a party knows their people best.”
Jacinda Ardern (1980) Prime Minister of New Zealand
Interview with Lisa Owen at Newshub Nation, 21 October 2017
“The best leaders know that direction alone is no longer enough. The best leaders are storytellers, cheerleaders, and facilitators.”
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Walther Funk (1890–1960) German economist and politician
To Leon Goldensohn, March 31, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Ralph Peters (1952) American military officer, writer, pundit
Source: 2000s, Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World (2002), p. 133
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
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Stanley A. McChrystal (1954) American general
Source: My Share Of The Task (2013), p. 393-394
Context: All leaders are human. They get tired, angry, and jealous and carry the same range of emotions and frailties common to mankind. Most leaders periodically display them. The leaders I most admired were totally human but constantly strove to be the best humans they could be. Leaders make mistakes, and they are often costly. The first reflex is normally to deny the failure to themselves; the second is to hide it from others, because most leaders covet a reputation for infallibility. But it's a fool's dream and inherently dishonest. There are few secrets to leadership. It is mostly just hard work. More than anything else it requires self-discipline. Colorful, charismatic characters often fascinate people, even soldiers. But over time, effectiveness is what counts. Those who lead most successfully do so while looking out for their followers' welfare.
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Only the final bold section is connected to Laozi (see Ch. 17 of Tao Te Ching above). The origin of the added first section is unclear.
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Variant: A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Context: "Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. With the best leaders when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, "We have done this ourselves."
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2000s, Mother of All Mothers (September 2004)
Moses I. Finley (1912–1986) American historian
Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 60
“The leader is always alone before bad fates.”
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Toujours le chef est seul en face du mauvais destin.
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