Chapter 9: Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking 205ii) Thoughts worth thinking •Leadership
‘Courage is the quality
that guarantees all others.’Churchill‘Leadership is done
from in front.’ Peter Young
‘As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o’-clock-in-the-
morning kind: I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an
unexpected occasion; and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events,
leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.’ Napoleon
‘President Roosevelt possessed personality, but as his
nation’s leader... he also did his homework – thoroughly.’
‘A sense of humility is a quality I have observed in every
leader I have deeply admired.’ Dwight D Eisenhower