"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on leadership
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"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on leadership
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"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on leadership
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"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under."

Ervin, Sam on leadership
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"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on leadership
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"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."

Geneen, Harold S. on leadership   

"There are no office hours for leaders."

Gibbons, Cardinal J. on leadership   

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on leadership   

"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

Grizzard, Lewis on leadership
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"Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example."

Hennessy, Edward on leadership   

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

Hesburgh, Theodore M. on leadership
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"One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers."

Humes, James on leadership
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on leadership
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"Morale is faith in the man at the top."

Johnston, Albert Sidney on leadership
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"The highest of distinctions is service to others."

King George VI on leadership
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"You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time."

Knox, John on leadership
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"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!"

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on leadership
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"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed."

Lincoln, Abraham on leadership   

"It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top."

Lindner, Robert on leadership   

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."

Lippmann, Walter on leadership