Leadership Quotes
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Each of us has the potential to be a good leader. Successful leadership starts with our ability to lead ourselves. Serving as a leader provide an opportunity for us to grow and learn new skills, stretch our capabilities and discover more of our abilities. As we sharpen and improve our skills of leadership, we can influence others to be a good leader too.
May these quotes inspire you to grow as a leader and persevere when facing challenges in leadership.
Leadership Quotes
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."
- Vince Lombardi
"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average."
- Jim Rohn
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."
- Warren G. Bennis
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
- Jack Welch
"Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them."
- Stephen Covey
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader."
- Anthony J D'Angelo
"Leadership is action, not position.”
- Donald H. McGannon
"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."
- Ray Kroc
"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself — your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers."
- Dee Hock
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
- James Humes
"Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions."
- Bo Bennett
"A leader leads by example not by force."
- Sun Tzu
"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."
- Kenneth Blanchard
"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."
- Larry Bird
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
- Ralph Lauren
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
- John C. Maxwell
"The leader’s job is not to cover all the bases - it is to see that all bases are covered."
- James Crupi
"Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present."
- Rudy Giuliani
"He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
- Benjamin Franklin
"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader."
- General George S. Patton Jr.
"A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."
- Anon
"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
- Arnold H. Glasgow
"I believe in being an innovator."
- Walt Disney
"He who stops being better, stops being good."
- Oliver Cromwell
"Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results"
- Alfred Chandler
"The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."
- Charles Schwab
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."
- Dale Carnegie
"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."
- Peter Drucker
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
- Winston Churchill
"If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done."
- John Ilhan
"The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed."
- Ray Kroc
"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act."
- Jack Welch
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