Leadership Quotes

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

Popularity is not leadership.

Richard Marcinko

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight David Eisenhower

The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore Hesburgh

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Herbert Hoover

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Sam Rayburn

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 a noble calling. In addtion to meeting well-defined strategic objectives, leaders must also help their organizations make meaningful contributions to social issues, economic growth, and political stability. That's why effective organizational leadership plays a vital role in shaping our world.

Robert L. Joss

Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal and written symbols employees are motivated or deflated, informed or confused, productive or apathetic. A leader's ability to carve off the verbal fat and get to the meat of an issue, idea or plan will find success at every turn.

Reed Markham, PhD

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Tom Peters

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

Dennis A. Peer

A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.

Mark Brouwer

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

Vanna Bonta

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

John C. Maxwell
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