Quotes on Business Leadership

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

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

To lead people, walk behind them.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Earn your leadership every day.

It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the 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.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.