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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."- Peter F. Drucker
"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."- James Callaghan
"The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion."- Báb
"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."- George S. Patton
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision."-Theodore Hesburgh
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."- Dwight Eisenhower
"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."- Robert Half
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"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
"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women."- Groucho Marx
"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."- St. Francis of Assisi
"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership."- Faye Wattleton
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."- Ralph Nader
"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
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you."- Max DePree
"Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best."- Jimmy Johnson
"Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things."- Jesse Jackson
"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."- Admiral Grace Hopper
More Great Quotes about Leadership
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."- Dwight Eisenhower
"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
"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
"Good leaders must first become good servants."- Robert Greenleaf
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers."- Dee Hock
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."- Maya Angelou
"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
"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 quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."- Ray Kroc
"I think leadership comes from integrity - that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity."- Scott Berkun
"The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership."- Jim Loehr
"Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving."- Jesse Jackson
"No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective."- Peter Drucker
"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."- Aristotle
"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."- James Allen
"Tzu-kung asked, 'Is there a single word which can be a guide to conduct throughout one's life?' The Master said, 'It is perhaps the word 'shu.' Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."- Confucius
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