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Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~Author Unknown
Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~Gene Mauch
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ~Robert Jarvik
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. ~Tom Peters
One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. ~Dennis A. Peer
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. ~John C. Maxwell
A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord
A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. ~Mark Brouwer
I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~Indira Gandhi
A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care. ~Simon Sinek
Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ~Paul Hawken
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani
A leader leads by example not by Force. ~Sun Tzu
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~Golda Meir
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt
He led his regiment from behind -
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran,
His place was at the fore, O.
~W.S. Gilbert
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~Vince Lombardi
We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school? ~Henry Mintzberg
Leadership is often nothing more than doing the right thing and inspiring others to the same. ~Terri Guillemets
Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ~Author Unknown
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ~Tony Blair
There is a significant difference between a leader and a cheerleader. ~Author Unknown
I praise loudly, I blame softly. ~Catherine the Great
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~G.K. Chesterton
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his men. ~Author Unknown
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~Anne Bradstreet
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
Inside my empty bottle
I was constructing a lighthouse
While all the others
Were making ships.
~Charles Simic, "Solving the Riddle," Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk, 1974
One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn't about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It's about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Citadelle, 1948, translated from French [Thanks, Garson O'Toole! quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/25/sea
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ~Lee Iacocca
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ~Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ~Eugene V. Debs
To lead the people, walk behind them. ~Lao-Tzu
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ~Eric Hoffer
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