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Quotes About Leadership

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
~ Robert Townsend
Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy
~ Sun Tzu
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'
~ Sheryl Sandberg
The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
~ Paul Keating
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
~ Ross Perot
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
~ Colin Powell
What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.
~ Sam Manekshaw
The true leader is always led.
~ Carl Jung
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
~ James MacGregor Burns
The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.
~ Ronald Reagan
A good leader makes a good follower.
~ Wilfred Bion
You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
~ Rudy Giuliani
We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.
~ Michelle Obama
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
~ Carlos Ghosn
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
~ Warren G. Bennis
One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.
~ Mario Batali
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
~ Chester Barnard
Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy.
~ Simon T. Bailey
You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.
~ John Howard
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin