LEADERSHIP QUOTES VII

quotations about leadership

That's what leadership is all about, identifying quality people, giving them the opportunity and experience to create and develop to continue to make the company successful. The best leaders identify and mentor potential leaders. A leader's most important legacy is the leaders he or she develops.

KENNETH E. STRONG & JOHN A. DICICCO

Leadership Is a Choice


Leaders are said to be responsive to what their followers want because the followers choose the leader and leaders want to keep their leadership positions. The assumption that leaders will be responsive to followers because leaders want to win and hold power is a useful starting point for understanding the politics of leadership in any democratic institution. However, such an assumption may become misleading if leaders are understood to care only about retaining their leadership positions. If some congressional leaders are strongly committed to political goals beyond remaining leader--and we shall see that some are--we would not expect those leaders always to be inclined to take their bearings from what their followers want. When opportunities arise to pursue other intensely held goals, some may be willing to act independently of followers and even risk their leadership positions in pursuit of those goals. If so, leaders who are more risk-tolerant may be consequential for influencing outcomes in a wider range of political situations than just those situations in which their followers are already mostly in agreement.

RANDALL STRAHAN

Leading Representatives


The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

ANDRE MAUROIS

"The Art of Leadership", The Art of Living

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

DESMOND TUTU

The Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 20, 1984


Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others. When the leader in everyone is liberated extraordinary things happen.

JAMES M. KOUZES & BARRY Z. POSNER

The Leadership Challenge


The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

ERIC HOFFER

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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Leading is a hot seat and some of us embrace it and some of us don't. And there are always ways to do it better.

MEGHAN M. BIRO

"5 Great Ways To Hack Your Leadership Style", Forbes, April 22, 2016


Poor leadership is itself a scandal.

MARIAM MOKHTAR

"Poor leadership is itself a scandal", Free Malaysia Today, March 30, 2016


Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charistmatic behaviors to advance your own personal interests, then people have every right to be cynical. But if your leadership flows first and foremost from inner character and integrity of ambition, then you can justly ask people to lend themselves to your organization and its mission.

JIM COLLINS

foreward, Hesselbein on Leadership


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

attributed, Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success


'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia

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Leadership is not something you do to people, but something you do with people.

KEN BLANCHARD

Leading at a Higher Level


There is no such thing as a perfect leader.... If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

LIU SHAOQI

attributed, Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution


Think like a leader from the start. Even the most intense apprenticeship phase isn't designed to endow you with leadership skills. That's why you should find ways to develop these skills on your own, as soon as you get your feet wet.

CHRISTIAN BONILLA

"Leadership is a quality that you can teach yourself", Quartz, April 11, 2016


Leadership is not something you own and keep for yourself. It is a responsibility you are entrusted with for a period of time, and it is a duty you fulfill.

KEITH D. HARRELL

The Attitude of Leadership


The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

SAMUEL SMILES

Character

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Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

ROBERT JARVIK

attributed, Deliberate Success


That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

JAMES ALAN GARDNER

Expendable

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Real leadership is not about calling yourself "leader"; rather, it's about taking up the cause to change some piece of the world for the better. Real leadership, in other words, is an extreme act rooted in love and motivated by a desire to create a better world--whether it's the world of your company, team, neighborhood, or family.

STEVE FARBER & MATTHEW KELLY

Greater Than Yourself