Leadership Quotes

108. The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

^{Andrew Carnegie}

109. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

^{Tom Peters}

110. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

^{William James}

111. A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

^{J. P. Morgan}

112. High expectations are the key to everything.

^{Sam Walton}

113. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

^{Peter Drucker}

114. When placed in command, take charge.

^{Norman Schwarzkopf}

115. Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

^{Harold S. Geneen}

116. If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.

^{Thomas Fuller}

117. No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

^{W. Clement Stone}

118. You’re only as good as the people you hire.

^{Ray Kroc}

119. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man’s greatest asset.

^{Harvey S. Firestone}

120. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

^{Henry Kissinger}

121. Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

^{Barbara Sher}

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

^{John C. Maxwell}

123. Get the best people and train them well.

^{Scott McNealy}

124. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

^{E. Joseph Cossman}

125. Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

^{Jim Rohn}

126. Be the chief but never the lord.

^{Lao Tzu}

127. Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

^{Peter Drucker}

128. You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

^{Major Owens}

129. You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

^{Donald Trump}

130. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

^{Robin S. Sharma}

131. The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

^{Jon Taffer}

132. Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.

^{Simon Sinek}

133. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

^{Harvey S. Firestone}

134. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

^{Ken Blanchard}

135. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

^{Harry S Truman}

136. I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

^{Queen Elizabeth II}

137. Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

^{Mwai Kibaki}

138. True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

^{Bill Owens}

139. The art of communication is the language of leadership.

^{James Humes}

140. Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

^{A. P. J. Abdul Kalam}

141. We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

^{Barack Obama}

142. Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

^{Alan Mulally}

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

^{Stephen Covey}

144. You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

^{Norman Schwarzkopf}

145. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

^{Ralph Nader}

146. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

^{John Kenneth Galbraith}

147. Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

^{Seth Berkley}

148. We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

^{Atifete Jahjaga}

149. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

^{John Naisbitt}

150. 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.

^{Ferdinand Marcos}

151. Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

^{Myles Munroe}

152. Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

^{Indra Nooyi}

153. A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.

^{Mark Goulston}

154. One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.

^{Kyrie Irving}

155. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

^{John Buchan}

156. The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

^{Tony Dungy}

157. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

^{James MacGregor Burns}

158. Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career – novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.

^{Randi Weingarten}

159. The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

^{James Buchanan}