“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”
More from Lao Tzu on Leadership
“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”
“The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.”
“If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them.”
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
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Eisenhower
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Henry Kissinger
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Nelson Mandela
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