Quotes
Quotes about Leaders
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds. -Unknown.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves themâthis is of the essence of leadership.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Leadership is not magnetic personality â that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' â 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.
