ACEO

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.          

Herbert Swope

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.          

Thomas Jefferson

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.          

John Kenneth Galbraith

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?          

Benjamin Disraeli

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.          

Peter Drucker

Έστι δ’ η γνώμη απόφανσις περί των καθόλου και περί όσων αι πράξεις εισί, και αιρετά ή φευκτά εστι προς το πράττειν          

 Αριστοτέλης (“Ρητορική”)

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.          

Theodore Roosevelt

Το λακωνίζειν εστί φιλοσοφείν           

Πλάτων

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.          

Jesse Jackson

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.          

Stephen Covey