Quotes on Leadership By Famous Leaders

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

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.

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.

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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

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

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

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

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, _x000D_ _x000D_ a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

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

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.