How to Be a Leader Quotes

“In politics, we must not escape a single master…but many masters…contentiousness, love of glory, the desire to be first and greatest, and the sickness that produces envy, jealousy, and dissension in abundance.”
― Plutarch, How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

“As Plato says: ‘People cannot be good leaders, unless they have first been good servants.”
― Plutarch, How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

“Leaders who allow themselves to be governed by reason will allow themselves to in turn govern their cities benevolently. The uneducated leader, on the other hand, is plagued by greed, paranoia, and a false sense of grandeur.”
― Plutarch, How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

“Foolish people practice politics, not by serving as generals, secretaries, or popular leaders, but by inciting the mob, giving public speeches, fostering discord, or performing public service out of obligation; and, conversely, those who are civic-minded, philanthropic, devoted to the city, attentive, and truly political are always practicing politics by the promotion of those in power, the guidance of those needing direction, the support of those deliberating, the correction of those causing harm, and the reinforcement of those who are sensible.”
― Plutarch, How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

“For they either believe their colleagues to be their equals and so they fight against them; or they believe them to be superior and so they envy them; or they believe them inferior and so they despise them. We must, however, pay court to the colleague who is superior, make the inferior better, and honor the equal.”
― Plutarch, How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership