Leadership Quotes and Sayings
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men – the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” – a leader says “Let’s go!”
E.M. Kelly
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
Anonymous
A leader leads by example not by Force.
Sun Tzu
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert Jarvik
One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
Dennis A. Peer
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
Vince Lombardi
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Harry Truman
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John C. Maxwell
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John C. Maxwell
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
Gene Mauch
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Jim Rohn
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
A leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible.
Mark Yarnell
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
Ross Perot
A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.
Mark Brouwer
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
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
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