Leadership Quotes

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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
-- Tom Landry

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves.
-- Lao Tzu

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
-- Lao Tzu

* Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. -- Lewis Lapham

Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.
-- Charles S. Lauer

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
-- Walter Lippman

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
-- Vince Lombardi

* “In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.” -- Wilma Mankiller “America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.” -- Wilma Mankiller

The first step to leadership is servanthood.
-- John Maxwell

The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.
-- Harold R. McAlindon

Leadership is action, not position.
-- Donald H. McGannon

* I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -- Ralph Nader

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
-- Mary D. Poole

No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative.
-- Edgar Powell

 

Leadership Quotes

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LEADERSHIP
HERO PIX

Andrew Carnegie | Peter Drucker | Jessie Jackson
Lewis Lapham | Wilma Mankiller | Ralph Nader
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Faye Wattleton | Woodrow Wilson

Leadership Week - February 4-10