Quotes About Leadership

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

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

Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.