562 Quotes Regarding Leadership


A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

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

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim Rohn

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas Sowell

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

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell

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

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Aristotle Onassis

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
Donald Trump