“Leaders typically don’t follow the crowd, that is unless they’re trying to escape a burning building.”

“Leaders resist change as mush as followers do, unless the change is their idea.”

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

“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

“So that was my task as leader. Escape from a situation that was complex, dangerous, and littered with unknowns. Get out of the burning labyrinth without stepping on the buried land mines.”

“Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders; therefore, he was a follower… he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.”

“Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.”

“Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.”

“I don’t like eating in the dark. Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they’re trying to hide the food.”

“The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty steps in advance; but if he is a thousand steps in front of them, they do not see and do not follow him, and any literary freebooter who chooses may shoot him with impunity.”