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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F Drucker


Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

George S Patton


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

Dwight Eisenhower


I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Benjamin Disraeli


The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore M. Hesburgh


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


Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell


Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight Eisenhower


Situations need to be managed but people need to be led.

Simon Cooper


It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Franklin D Roosevelt


What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Sophocles


Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Brian Tracy


Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made just like anything else. . . through hard work. That's the price we have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.

Vince Lombardi


Leaders instill in their people internal belief and empower them to achieve their goals.

Simon Cooper


If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

Miyamoto Mursashi


Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S Patton


Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

Colin Powell


To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Harry Truman


The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Henry Ford


Effective leadership is about earning respect.

Alan Sugar


The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership.

Jim Loehr


Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Goethe


Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill


The leader’s job is not to cover all the bases - it is to see that all bases are covered.

James Crupi


To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

Lao-Tsu

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