leadership quotes

You have no rightto manage others

if you are not passionate

about what you do.Bill Quiseng

A leader takes people where they want to go.

A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go

but ought to be.Rosalynn Carter

It is better to lead from behindand to put others in front,

especially when you celebrate victory

when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger.

Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

I suppose leadershipat one time meant

muscles; but today it means getting along

with people. Mahatma Gandhi

Set and demandstandards of excellence.

Anybody who accepts mediocrity

- in school, in job, in life –- is a guy who compromises.

And when the leader compromises,

the whole damn organization compromises.

Charles Knight Emerson

Effective leadershipis not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is

defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker

I forgot to shake handsand be friendly.

It was animportant lessonabout leadership.

Lee Iacocca

Don't tell people how to do things,

tell them what to do and let them surprise

you with their results.

George S. Patton

Leadershipcan be thought of

as a capacityto define oneself to

others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision

of the future.Edwin H. Friedman

If you want one yearof prosperity, grow grain.

If you want ten yearsof prosperity, grow trees.If you want one hundred

years of prosperity, grow

people.Chinese proverb

All of the great leadershave had one characteristic

in common: it was the willingness

to confront unequivocallythe major anxiety of their

people in their time.

This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Most important,leaders can conceive and articulate goals

that lift people out of their petty preoccupations

and unite them in pursuitof objectives worthyof their best efforts.

John Gardner

Leadershipis the capacityto translate

vision into reality.Warren G. Bennis, President

University of Southern California

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people

aren't used to an environment where

excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

If you want to build a ship,don't drum up the men

to gather wood, divide the work

and give orders.Instead, teach them to yearn

for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exuperv

The key to successful

leadership today is influence, not authority.

Kenneth Blanchard

An outstanding leader clearly articulates the goals and objectives

and makes sure every member

of the organization understands the role

he or she plays in achieving these goals.

Jack Bingleman, President, Staples

Leadership is not a 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 high sights,

the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard,

the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter F. Drucker

Customer satisfactionstarts withemployee

satisfaction.Charlie P. CrockettSales Director, 3M

The challenge of leadershipis to be strong, but not rude;

be kind, but not weak;be bold, but not bully;

be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant;

have humor, but without folly."Jim Rohn

If your actionsinspire others to dream more,

learn more, do moreand become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

A leaderis one

who knows the way,goes the way,

and shows the way.John Maxwell

The best executive is the one

who has sense enoughto pick good men

to do what he wants done,and self-restraint

to keep from meddlingwith them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

The very essence of leadershipis that you have to have a

vision.It’s got to be a visionyou articulate clearly

and forcefully on every occasion.

You can’t blowan uncertain trumpet.Theodore Hesburgh, President

Norte Dame University

No manwill make a great

leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all

the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie

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. Colin Powell

The job of leadership today

is not just to make money.

It’s to make meaning.

John Seely BrownDirector, XEROX Parc

Outstanding leaders go out of the way

to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in

themselves,it's amazing

what they can accomplish. Sam Walton

You can take great people, highly trained and

motivated, and put them in a lousy systemand the system will win

all the time. Geary Rummier, President The Rummier-Bache Group

But of a good leader who talks little

when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

they will say, "We did it ourselves.”

Lao Tzu