The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore Hesburgh
Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.
John G Agno
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter F. Drucker
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Alexander III
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.
Leonard James Callaghan
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
Co C
We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.
Larisa Alexandrovna
Believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm's way.
Laura Welch Bush
A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.
Marvin Bower
I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
Marvin Bower
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: He who wants everything must risk very little.
Pierre Corneille