Quotes on Greatest Leadership

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

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.

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.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

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.

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.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

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.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

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

Earn your leadership every day.

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.

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

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

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