LEADERSHIP QUOTES VIII

quotations about leadership

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

JAMES ALAN GARDNER

Expendable

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The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

SAMUEL SMILES

Character

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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

SETH GODIN

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us


There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Developing the Leader Within You


All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

The Age of Uncertainty

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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

ROBERT E. LEE

attributed, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations


Leadership is made by strong men with strong convictions, not clerks who study commas on lawslates.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen


Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

COLIN POWELL

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


What was leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason.

ROBERT HARRIS

Pompeii


If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

KEVIN CASHMAN

Leadership from the Inside Out


Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

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I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.

MURIEL STRODE

My Little Book of Prayer


The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

TONY BLAIR

Mail on Sunday, Oct. 2, 1994

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The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership

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By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

attributed, The Federal Career Service: A Look Ahead

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Leadership is not a job, not a role one plays at work and then puts aside during the commute home in order to relax and enjoy real life. Rather, leadership is the leader's real life.

CHRIS LOWNEY

Heroic Leadership


Leaders are expected to look into the future, to gaze across the time horizon and communicate to us what they see. It's not about being prescient or clairvoyant. It's about being discerning and perceptive. It's about noticing what's around the corner.

JAMES M. KOUZES & BARRY POSNER

A Leader's Legacy


A leader is best when people barely know he exists.

LAOZI

Tao Te Ching


Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Leadership Gold