LEADERSHIP QUOTES IV

quotations about leadership

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

"Leadership", Money and Class in America

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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Power of Leadership


The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

SHERI L. DEW

Saying It Like It Is


In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

SHERYL SANDBERG

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead


The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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That's what leadership is all about, identifying quality people, giving them the opportunity and experience to create and develop to continue to make the company successful. The best leaders identify and mentor potential leaders. A leader's most important legacy is the leaders he or she develops.

KENNETH E. STRONG & JOHN A. DICICCO

Leadership Is a Choice


There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

ANDREW CARNEGIE

attributed, Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success


Leadership is caring for the most vulnerable.

ELIZABETH CARDNO

"Leadership is caring for the most vulnerable", The Hamilton Spectator, April 26, 2016


You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

COLIN POWELL

"10 Leadership Tenets from Colin Powell", Stanford Graduate School of Business


Because our desire for a coherent vision of the world is bottomless, our hunger for leadership is insatiable, too. Leaders make the world more sensible, but never sensible enough.

JOSHUA ROTHMAN

"Shut Up and Sit Down", The New Yorker, February 29, 2016


What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

LORD MELBOURNE

attributed, Lord M.


You aren't leading unless people are following.

RON EDMONDSON

"7 Times Leadership is at Its Best -- A Delicate Tension", Crossmap, April 18, 2016


A leader is a dealer in hope.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

attributed, And I Quote

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If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

BILL MAULDIN

The Brass Ring


The right man comes at the right time.

ITALIAN PROVERB


The best leaders turn their followers into leaders, realizing that the journey ahead requires many guides.

JAMES M. KOUZES & BARRY Z. POSNER

A Leader's Legacy


Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others. When the leader in everyone is liberated extraordinary things happen.

JAMES M. KOUZES & BARRY Z. POSNER

The Leadership Challenge


He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

Tags: Aristotle