Leadership Quotes

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Robert Townsend

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

William Pollard

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore Hesburgh

Leadership development is self-development.

John G Agno

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, PhD

Leadership is action, not position.

Donald H. McGannon

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Tom Landry

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.

Ordway Tead

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

Popularity is not leadership.

Richard Marcinko

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Faye Wattleton

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

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

Harold S. Geneen

Communication is the real work of leadership.

Nitin Nohria

Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.

John G Agno

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 David Eisenhower

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Anthony Jay

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

Peter F. Drucker

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