You are not a leader until you have followers; before that you are an explorer or an eccentric, perhaps even a saint. Those who retrace your steps – if they do – are not yet following you, they are merely coming after.

Those who follow a leader are not like those who follow a thief: they are not trying to catch up. Those who follow a leader take pride in his achievements, not their own.

The tyrant binds his adherents through fear; the leader binds his adherents through trust. The tyrant inspires dread of failure; the leader inspires anger. The tyrant is always looking back; the leader always forward.