"Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.”

“Life and death are one thread.”

“What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.”

“Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.”

“You can't become a leader in one conference.”

“If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.”

“You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.”

“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”

“At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.”