leadership quotes

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller, M. D.

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Arnold H. Glasow

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

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

If one branch doesn't move, the many branches won't stir. (“If someone does not lead, no-one will follow.”)

Chinese Proverb

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

Theodore Hesburgh

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Archibald Wavell,"London Times",

17 February, 1941

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC

Leaders manage the dream. All leaders have the capacity to create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then to translate that vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

Max DePree

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Stephen Covey

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

Irwin Federman

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders need to strike a balance between action and patience.

Doug Smith

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success, leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

To get a feel for the true essence of leadership, assume everyone who works for you is a volunteer.

Kouzes and Posner

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

Buchholz and Roth

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The level of morale is a good barometer of how each of your people is experiencing your leadership.

Danny Cox

Effective team leaders realise they neither know all the answers, nor can they succeed without the other members of the team.

Katzenbach & Smith

Communicate everything to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

Sam Walton

Your very best people will respond to what you actually do, what you evidently measure, and what you openly reward – every single time.

Betsy Sanders

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

John Whitmore

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

Goethe

Managers control. Leaders create commitment.

Jonh Zenger

If he works for you, you work for him.

Japanese Proverb

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General Patton

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower