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Leadership
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient.
Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play
William B. Given, Jr.
Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
Brian Tracy
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people
Woodrow Wilson
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way
Henry Miller
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
Vince Lombardi
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people,
they no longer can lead solely based on positional power
Ken Blanchard
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing
Theodore Roosevelt
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument,
debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand
Colin Powell
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely
Auguste Rodin
Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
Catherine DeVrye
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push.
A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough
Richard M. Devos
A leader is someone who creates infectious enthusiasm
Ted Turner
If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
Jack Welch
Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue.
It is not 'making friends and influencing people' that is flattery.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights,
the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard,
the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations
Peter Drucker
The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you'
The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?'
The three most important are - 'If you please'
The two most important are - 'Thank You'
And the most important single word of all is - 'You'
Denis Waitley
You can tell a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell a man is wise by his questions
Naguib Mahfouz
Change cannot be avoided ... change provides the opportunity for innovation.
It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity
Felice Jones
To become a leader, then, you must become
yourself, become the maker of your own life
Warren G. Bennis
Techniques don't produce quality products or pick up
the garbage on time; people do, people who care, people
who are treated as creatively contributing adults
Tom Peters
The past doesn't equal the future.
All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available.
Tony Robbins
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced
courses of action you should take, choose the bolder
William Joseph Slim
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
Jim Rohn
The best way to gain and hold the loyalty of your
personnel is to show interest in them and care for
them, by your words and actions, in everything you do.
Secrets of Effective Leadership
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership
determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall
Stephen R. Covey
The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their
attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs.
He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.
He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met,
the need resolved, the crisis overcome
John Haggai
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader
John Quincy Adams
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves
Ray Kroc
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done
Ralph Nader
Great managers make themselves dispensable and let frontline people make the decisions
Sinclair Beecham
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire
to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your
peers, and about the people you serve
Brian Koval
Leadership is action, not position
Donald H. McGannon
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others
to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
John McCain
Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves
Brian Tracy
When you walk your talk, people listen
German Proverb
One cannot consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar
Helen Keller
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process
of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life
to be congruent with those most important things
Stephen Covey
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
Warren G. Bennis
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people ...
they no longer can lead solely based on positional power
Ken Blanchard
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united
with faith in his justice
George Washington Goethals
If you are going to help people reach their potential,
they need to be recognised and rewarded. Everyone needs that
Jacqueline Norcel
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people
to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability
Fred A. Manske Jr
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs
of those who would be affected by it
Marian Anderson
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader
John Quincy Adams
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it
Raymond Chandler
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share
of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit
Author Unknown
Leaders aren't born, they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work"
Vince Lombardi
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked;
leadership is defined by results not attributes
Peter F. Drucker
There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,
and that's not training them and keeping them
Zig Ziglar
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers...
Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership
Gary Wills
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality
Warren Bennis
To be successful in business, you have to be going somewhere,
and everyone in the company has to know where it is.
That's a basic rule, a higher law, but most companies miss it.
They miss the fact that you have a much better chance
of winning if everyone knows what it takes to win
Jack Stack
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune
Author Unknown
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need.
You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
Carlos Ghosn
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
But if you must be without one, be without the strategy
Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart,
than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership
are expressed, ultimately, in its practice
Max DePree
People don't mind being challenged to do better if they
know the request is coming from a caring heart
Ken Blanchard
Leadership is simply an energy that mobilizes people and moves them
Doug Firebaugh
People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering.
They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
Ricardo Semler
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way
John C. Maxwell
Managers help people see themselves as they are;
Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are
Jim Rohn
Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember.
Involve me, and I'll learn.
Marla Jones
True leaders always practice the three R's:
Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all their actions.
Author Unknown
If you want to lead, first learn how to follow
Rick Beneteau
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement,
to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Joe Klock
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in
other men the conviction and the will to carry on
Walter Lippmann
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
well-timed, sincere words of praise.
They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
Sam Walton
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision.
Vision is the perfume of the mind
Harriet Rubin
A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear,
who has you see what you don't want to see,
so you can be who you have always known you could be
Tom Landry
A truly successful leader in any business or organisational endeavour
is exemplified in their ability to galvanise and engage
the support of their greatest asset . . . people
Keith Ready
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station,
who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under
a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism
Charles M. Schwab
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily,
even if you had no title or position
Author Unknown
It all comes down to this:
If you want one year of happiness, grow grain.
If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people
Harvey Mackay
It is wonderful when the people believe in their leader:
but it is more wonderful when the leader believes in the people
Author Unknown
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done,
because he wants to do it
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds
Author Unknown
The task of a leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been
Henry Kissinger
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument,
debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand
General Colin Powell
You do not lead by hitting people over the head,
that's assault, not leadership
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions
Harold S. Geneen
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
Rosalynn Carter
The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualised
Mary Parker Follett
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.
If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish
Sam Walton
It is wonderful when the people believe in their leader:
but it is more wonderful when the leader believes in the people!
Author Unknown
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