Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
(Dwight Eisenhower)
A leader is a dealer in hope.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
(Benjamin Disraeli)
The leadership instinct you are born with
is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone
that go with it.
(Elaine Agather)
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating
works, too.
(Robert Half)
The very essence of leadership is that you
have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
(Theodore M. Hesburgh)
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)
Management is doing things right; leadership
is doing the right things.
(Peter F. Drucker)
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them
what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
(George S. Patton)
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must
turn his back on the crowd.
(James Crook)
People cannot be managed. Inventories can be
managed, but people must be led.
(H. Ross Perot)
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You
plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation
of humility.
(St. Augustine)
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever
you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Life is like a dogsled team. If you aren't
the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
(Lewis Grizzard)
A leader is best when people barely know he
exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse
when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We
did it ourselves.
(Lao-Tzu)
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder
when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
(Sophocles)
The question, 'Who ought to be boss?' is like
asking, 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously,
it is the man who can sing tenor.
(Henry Ford)
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
(Dwight Eisenhower)
A leader is a dealer in hope.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever
you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think
you look funny on a horse.
(Adlai Stevenson)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition
from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man
does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly
and courageously uses his intelligence.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed
at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, and they laughed
at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
(Carl Sagan)
You do not lead by hitting people over the
head - that's assault, not leadership.
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity
to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands
a vision of the future.
(Edwin H. Friedman)
What you always do before you make a decision
is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening
to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is
determined, you call on them to help you sell it.
(Elizabeth Dole)
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth,
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal
with a world that no longer exists.
(Eric Hoffer)
It is not so much that man is a herd animal,
said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
(Ernest Becker)
I never had much faith in leaders. You will
find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they
have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction.
I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would
be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I
rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
(Eugene V. Debs)
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
(Everett Dirksen)
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
(Faye Wattleton)
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be
as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the
very best fight.
(Faye Wattleton)
Inventories can be managed, but people must
be led.
(H. Ross Perot)
A community is like a ship; everyone ought
to be prepared to take the helm.
I cannot give you the formula for success,
but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to
please everybody.
(Herbert B. Swope)
If I have seen farther than others, it is because
I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
(Isaac Newton)
A leader must have the courage to act against
an expert's advice.
(James Callaghan)
There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader
who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.
(James Kouzes and Barry Posner)
You must unite your constituents around a common
cause and connect with them as human beings.
(James Kouzes and Barry Posner)
Time is neutral and does not change things.
With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
(Jesse Jackson)
Pity the leader caught between unloving critics
and uncritical lovers.
(John Gardner)
Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate
goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and
unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
(John Gardner)
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
(John Quincy Adams)
The key to successful leadership today is influence,
not authority.
(Kenneth Blanchard)
Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even
against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited
pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying
any means and any measures.
(Margaret Chase Smith)
When leaders take back power, when they act
as heroes and saviours, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed,
and deeply stressed.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to
speak the truth and expose lies.
(Noam Chomsky)
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems
to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained
themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think
"we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to
make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't
sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates
trust, what enables you to get the task done.
(Peter Drucker)
Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance
to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise.
(Peter Drucker)
I start with the premise that the function
of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
(Ralph Nader)
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having
commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg.
There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him
about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls
a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
(Robert Coles)
Good leaders must first become good servants.
(Robert Greenleaf)
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your
inspiration with others.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
Leaders are more powerful role models when
they learn than when they teach.
(Rosabeth Moss Kantor)
A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want
to go, but ought to be.
(Rosalynn Carter)
Effective leadership is putting first things
first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
(Stephen Covey)
Cautious, careful people, always casting about
to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can
bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be
willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation,
and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy
with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and
bear the consequences.
(Susan B. Anthony)
The very essence of leadership is that you
have to have a vision.
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
(Tom Peters)
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes.
It is very easy to say yes.
(Tony Blair)
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they
are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's
the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
(Vince Lombardi)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves
behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry
on.
(Walter Lippman)
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks
what and why.
(Warren Bennis)
The most dangerous leadership myth is that
leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic
qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is
true. Leaders are made rather than born.
(Warren Bennis)
The price of greatness is responsibility.
(Winston Churchill)
For people to allow themselves be willingly
led by you, they must clearly see you as the example.
(Alex Nosa Ihama)
The ultimate question that conscientious leadership
must always raise is, "is it right?"
(Martin Luther King)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear;
not absence of fear.
(Mark Twain)
If you want something done, you'll find a way.
If you don't want something done, you'll find an excuse.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to
one another.
(John F. Kennedy)
If you think you can't, or you think you can;
you're probably right.
(Mark Twain)
Never let the fear of striking out get in your
way.
(Babe Ruth)
We must all hang together, or assuredly we
will all hang separately.
(Benjamin Franklin)
The reason I am a good hockey player is that
I never know where the puck is . . . I only know where I think
it is going. So I skate where the puck is going to be, not where
it has been.
(Wayne Gretzky)
The best way to predict the future is to create
it.
(Peter Drucker)
Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember;
a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
(Unknown)
If it can be done, it can be done by me.
(Mike Caldwell)
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
(Wayne Gretzky)
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
(Oprah Winfrey)
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
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