“A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.”

~James Callaghan

“What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.”

~Elizabeth Dole

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”

~Theodore M. Hesburgh

“Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.”

~Edwin H. Friedman

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”

~Alan Cohen