Quotes on Future Leaders

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

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

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

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

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

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.