Quotes on Funny Leadership

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

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.

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

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

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.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.