Quotes About Direction

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

The true leader is always led.

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

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

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

Leaders when not leading are outcasts.

Leadership is a choice one makes.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.