Quotes about leadership

"The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings."

Adair, John on leadership
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"A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it."

Adelman, Ken on leadership
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"Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new."

Aeschylus on leadership   

"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."

Allen, Norman on leadership
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"The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow."

Anderson, Marian on leadership   

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

Augustine, St. on leadership
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"If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you."

Azai, Rabbi Ben on leadership
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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Barker, Joel A. on leadership
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"The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."

Batten, Joe on leadership
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"The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Bible on leadership
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"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."

Bird, Larry on leadership   

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"Men are lead by trifles."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership   

"Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership   

"An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on leadership
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"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two."

Brecht, Bertolt on leadership
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"When we think we lead we are most led."

Byron, Lord on leadership
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"The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service."

Caine, Mark on leadership   

"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so."

Carlyle, Thomas on leadership   

"'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep."

Cervantes, Miguel De on leadership   

"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?"

Confucius on leadership
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"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

Crook, James on leadership
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"Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain."

Depree, Max on leadership
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."

Diderot, Denis on leadership   

"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."

Diogenes of Sinope on leadership
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"No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on leadership   

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

Disraeli, Benjamin on leadership
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"The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd."

Donnell, R. S. on leadership
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"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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"Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist."

Dyer, Wayne 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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