Quotes on Born Leaders

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs _x000D_ _x000D_ of those who would be affected by it

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.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

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.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.