562 Quotes Regarding Leadership


If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Drucker

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu

Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Mitt Romney