Leadership Quotes

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Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen R. Covey

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say I. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say I. They don’t think I. They think we; they think team. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but we gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Peter Drucker

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people..
Mohandas K. Gandhi

You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership .
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
Edwin H. Friedman

It is better to lead from behind and 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

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Bo Bennett

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone

Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

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

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
Admiral James B. Stockdale