“Liderança é fazer o que é certo quando ninguém está olhando.”

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements‎ - Página 114, de Eric Hoffer - Publicado por Harper and Row, 1951 - 176 páginas

citado em "A Grand Experiment: The Constitution at 200 : Essays from the Douglass Adair Symposia"; Por Douglass Adair, John Allphin Moore, John Edwin Murphy; Colaborador John Edwin Murphy; Publicado por Scholarly Resources, 1987; ISBN 0842022899, 9780842022897; 170 páginas books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=AsHYdXMLD4UC&q=What+makes+leadership+is+the+ability+to+get+people+to+do+what+they+don%27t+want+to+do+and+like+it.&dq=What+makes+leadership+is+the+ability+to+get+people+to+do+what+they+don%27t+want+to+do+and+like+it.&lr=&client=firefox-a&hl=pt-BR&pgis=1

Trecho de uma palestra de 1855.
Original: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Fonte: Palestra: The Anti-Slavery Movement http://books.google.pt/books?id=wN9Dj-_wM0IC&pg=PA33&dq=%22I+would+unite+with+anybody+to+do+right+and+with+nobody+to+do+wrong.%22&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22I%20would%20unite%20with%20anybody%20to%20do%20right%20and%20with%20nobody%20to%20do%20wrong.%22&f=false (1855).
Fonte: [20/12/2016, http://archive.is/iRu0T, http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/09/frederick_douglass_portrait_unveiled_as_1st_of_an_african_american_to_grace/, Historic Unveiling of Frederick Douglass Portrait at Governor’s Mansion in Md., Breanna Edwards, 16 de setembro de 2014, The Root, 20/12/2016]

Consensus is the absence of leadership
Margaret Thatcher citada em The Political Junkie Handbook - Página 464, Michael Crane - SP Books, 2004, ISBN 1561718912, 9781561718917 - 644 páginas