ON BECOMING A LEADER

By Warren Bennis

25 Best Quotes & Notes

Leadership, like beauty, is hard to define, but you

know it when you see it.

Leaders know how to capitalize on their

strengths and compensate for their weaknesses

Leaders know what they want, why they want it,

and how to inspire others to want it too.

Leaders have learned to be the original, not the copy.

True leadership is born out of the desire to express

oneself. No leader sets out to be a leader, per se.

Everyone, yes, even you, no matter what age or

circumstance, are capable of transformation.

True leaders inspire us and restore our hope.

The three most important essentials in leadership:

integrity, integrity, integrity.

Learning from failure is one of the most important qualities of a great leader.

It’s not enough for a leader to do things right;

he must do the right things.

When I’ve been most effective, I’ve listened to that inner voice – Norman

Lear

Leadership: a guiding vision, a belief in yourself, a belief that you can make

a difference. 

Leadership courses can teach skill, but they can’t teach character or vision.

Leaders don’t do great things by dwelling on their

limitations, but by focusing on their

possibilities.

Leaders overcome obstacles on the way to

discovering who they truly are.

Until you make your life your own, you’re walking

around in borrowed clothes.

The ingredients of leadership can’t be taught;

they must be learned.

If you haven’t failed, you haven’t tried hard enough.

The biggest mistake a leader can make is to put

together a team that reflects only him.

More important than specific goals is having

ambitions of how you want to live your life. The other

things will follow.

Leadership is first being, then doing.

Leadership is first being, then doing.

The world breaks all of us, and we become stronger in

the broken places – Hemmingway.

Leaders, the primary resource of your

organization is your people

These are hard times in which a genius would wish to live…Great challenges call forth great leaders

Abigail Adams.

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