Leadership Quotes

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Warren G. Bennis

Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others

Unknown

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

J. Donald Walters

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

Nitin Nohria

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

Max Depree

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

John Kotter

Leadership is the ability to do, not the ability to state

Paul Von Ringelheim

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Stephen R. Covey

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.

John G Agno

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

Bill Clinton

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Lee Iacocca

Leadership development is not an event.

John G Agno

Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send those consultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the people under you and put results over politics. That's all the charisma you'll really need to succeed.

Dyan Machan

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

Indira Gandhi

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Hugh Sidey

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

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

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Donald Rumsfeld

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

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