Quotes
Quotes about Leaders
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.
Leadership is influence.
Leadership is an action, not a position.
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.
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton.
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. Peter Ferdinand Drucker -Harold J. Seymour.
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.
Leadership is not 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 higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.
No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the end and at all costs. Charles deGaulle -Harold J. Seymour.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian Anderson.
