Leadership Quotes
To lead people, walk beside them....
Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!....Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally....Lao Tse.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint....Lewis H. Lapham.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum....Bishop Desmond Tutu.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss...The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert.
The leader leads, and the boss drives....Theodore Roosevelt.
A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: "Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain."....Max DePree.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers....Ralph Nader.
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure....Admiral Arleigh A. Burke.
Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead....Ross Perot.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on....The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully....Walter Lippmann.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table....Hubert H. Humphrey.
The real leader has no need to lead....he is content to point the way....Henry Miller.
It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone....Coco Chanel.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you....Max DePree.
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate....
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves!"....Lao-tsu.
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