leadership quotes
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You have no rightto manage others
if you are not passionate
about what you do.Bill Quiseng
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
It is better to lead from behindand to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela
I suppose leadershipat one time meant
muscles; but today it means getting along
with people. Mahatma Gandhi
Set and demandstandards of excellence.
Anybody who accepts mediocrity
- in school, in job, in life –- is a guy who compromises.
And when the leader compromises,
the whole damn organization compromises.
Charles Knight Emerson
Effective leadershipis not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is
defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker
I forgot to shake handsand be friendly.
It was animportant lessonabout leadership.
Lee Iacocca
Don't tell people how to do things,
tell them what to do and let them surprise
you with their results.
George S. Patton
Leadershipcan be thought of
as a capacityto define oneself to
others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision
of the future.Edwin H. Friedman
If you want one yearof prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten yearsof prosperity, grow trees.If you want one hundred
years of prosperity, grow
people.Chinese proverb
All of the great leadershave had one characteristic
in common: it was the willingness
to confront unequivocallythe major anxiety of their
people in their time.
This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Most important,leaders can conceive and articulate goals
that lift people out of their petty preoccupations
and unite them in pursuitof objectives worthyof their best efforts.
John Gardner
Leadershipis the capacityto translate
vision into reality.Warren G. Bennis, President
University of Southern California
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people
aren't used to an environment where
excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
If you want to build a ship,don't drum up the men
to gather wood, divide the work
and give orders.Instead, teach them to yearn
for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exuperv
The key to successful
leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard
An outstanding leader clearly articulates the goals and objectives
and makes sure every member
of the organization understands the role
he or she plays in achieving these goals.
Jack Bingleman, President, Staples
Leadership is not a 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
Customer satisfactionstarts withemployee
satisfaction.Charlie P. CrockettSales Director, 3M
The challenge of leadershipis 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
If your actionsinspire others to dream more,
learn more, do moreand become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
A leaderis one
who knows the way,goes the way,
and shows the way.John Maxwell
The best executive is the one
who has sense enoughto pick good men
to do what he wants done,and self-restraint
to keep from meddlingwith them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
The very essence of leadershipis that you have to have a
vision.It’s got to be a visionyou articulate clearly
and forcefully on every occasion.
You can’t blowan uncertain trumpet.Theodore Hesburgh, President
Norte Dame University
No manwill make a great
leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all
the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you
their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.They have either lost confidence
that you can help or concluded you do not care.
Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell
The job of leadership today
is not just to make money.
It’s to make meaning.
John Seely BrownDirector, XEROX Parc
Outstanding leaders go out of the way
to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in
themselves,it's amazing
what they can accomplish. Sam Walton
You can take great people, highly trained and
motivated, and put them in a lousy systemand the system will win
all the time. Geary Rummier, President The Rummier-Bache Group
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