2 0 I N S P I R I N G Q U OT E S O N L E A D E R S H I P

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Ronald Reagan

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Power isn’t control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

Beth Revis

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon

To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence… When the best leader’s work is done, the people say ‘We did it ourselves!’

Lao Tzu

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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 F. Drucker

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

My job is not to be easy on people.

My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Steve Jobs

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is solving problems. The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them.

They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care.

Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: 'Can you make the choice that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?’ No one has qualities like courage, vision, charisma, adaptability, and decisiveness in equal measure.

But every great leader does make the same decision - and so can you.

Jeff Haden

My own definition of leadership is this:

The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

General Montgomery

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss.

Both are based on authority.

A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

Klaus Balkenhol

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Warren Bennis

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

Douglas MacArthur

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time.

This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Leaders aren’t born, they are made.

And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.

And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Vince Lombardi

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same.

Dee Hock

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