Leadership Quotes

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
     - Harold S. Geneen -

The best way to teach people is by telling a story.
     - Kenneth Blanchard -

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
     - Sam Walton -

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
     - Peter F. Drucker -

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
     - John Quincy Adams -

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
     - Solon -

Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
     - Anonymous -

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
     - John Maxwell -

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
     - Theodore Roosevelt -

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
     - Ralph Nader -

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
     - George S. Patton -

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
     - Dwight Eisenhower -

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
     - Theodore Roosevelt -

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
     - Lao Tzu -

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
     - Elbert Hubbard -

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
     - Jim Rohn -

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
     - Benjamin Disraeli -

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
     - Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator -

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
     - Jim Rohn -

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
     - Zen Proverb -

To manage or to coach? People will manage the work. By attempting to manage people you are limiting their potential. A manager is a title, it does not guarantee success. Coaching is an action, not a title and actions will result in successes!
     - Catherine Pulsifer -

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
     - Stephen R. Covey -

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
     - Theodore Roosevelt -

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. That's the price we have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.
     - Vince Lombardi -

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 high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
     - Peter F. Drucker -

Anyone wanting to lead others must at first take full control of oneself.
     - Philip Massinger -

Leadership is the ability to turn vision into reality.
     - Warren Bennis -

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
     - Kenneth Blanchard -

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
     - William Arthur Ward -

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
     - Tom Peters -

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