Quotes on Leadership

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

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

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

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

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.