Quotes on Good Leadership

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

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.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

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.

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

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.