"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects." ― Charles de Gaulle Topic(s): Leadership More From Charles de Gaulle "Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so." "I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them." "It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge." More In Leadership "Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men."― Gloria Steinem "There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."― Liberty Hyde Bailey "All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."― Tom Peters