Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
Max De Pree
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
William Pollard
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
Robert Townsend
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom Landry
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The challenge of leadership is 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
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.
Nitin Nohria
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
Tom Lantos
Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships,alliances and supportive audiences.
Reed Markham