Quotes
Quotes about Leadership
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
