Leadership Quotes

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

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

Elaine Agather

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

Indira Gandhi

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Eric Hoffer

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

Unknown

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Robert Jarvik

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs

Charles Yost

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

A good leader inspires other men and women with confidence. A great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.

Reed Markham

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

George W. Bush

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Unknown

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight David Eisenhower

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Unknown

Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

John Kotter

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Golda Meir

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.

Reed Markham, PhD

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.

Reed Markham

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

Dennis A. Peer

Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Dwight David Eisenhower

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

Leadership is an unbelievably hard communications job.

Paul Danos

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