Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ☞ Vince Lombardi

We have great managers who haven’t spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven’t spent a day in surgical school? ☞ Henry Mintzberg

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ☞ Author Unknown

The art of leadership is saying no, not 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 D. Eisenhower

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ☞ Dave Barry

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ☞ Anne Bradstreet

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ☞ Ralph Nader

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ☞ Charles Simic

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ☞ Lee Iacocca

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ☞ Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

I am not a labor leader. I don’t want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ☞ Eugene V. Debs

To lead the people, walk behind them. ☞ Lao-Tzu

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership. ☞ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ☞ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is a dealer in hope. ☞ Napoleon Bonaparte

Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. ☞ Tom Peters

The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. ☞ Henry Miller,

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ☞ Charles Maurice

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

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

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ☞ Rudy Giuliani

A leader leads by example not by Force. ☞ Sun Tzu

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ☞ Theodore Roosevelt

He led his regiment from behind - He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore, O. ☞ W.S. Gilbert

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ☞ Eric Hoffer