OUR TOP 25 LEADERSHIP QUOTATIONS

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 1 Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F Drucker

Leadership Quote # 1

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F Drucker

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 2 Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George S Patton

Leadership Quote # 2

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

George S Patton

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 3 Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower

Leadership Quote # 3

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight Eisenhower

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 4 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? Benjamin Disraeli

Leadership Quote # 4

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Benjamin Disraeli

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 5 The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. Theodore M. Hesburgh

Leadership Quote # 5

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 6 The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership Quote # 6

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 7 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell

Leadership Quote # 7

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 8 Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. Dwight Eisenhower

Leadership Quote # 8

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

Dwight Eisenhower

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 9 Situations need to be managed but people need to be led. Simon Cooper

Leadership Quote # 9

Situations need to be managed but people need to be led.

Simon Cooper

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 10 It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there. Franklin D Roosevelt

Leadership Quote # 10

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Franklin D Roosevelt

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 11 What you cannot enforce, do not command. Sophocles

Leadership Quote # 11

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Sophocles

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 12 Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. Brian Tracy

Leadership Quote # 12

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Brian Tracy

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 13 Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made just like anything else. . . through hard work. That's the price we have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal. Vince Lombardi

Leadership Quote # 13

Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made just like anything else. . . through hard work. That's the price we have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 14 Leaders instill in their people internal belief and empower them to achieve their goals. Simon Cooper

Leadership Quote # 14

Leaders instill in their people internal belief and empower them to achieve their goals.

Simon Cooper

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 15 If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. Miyamoto Mursashi

Leadership Quote # 15

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

Miyamoto Mursashi

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 16 Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. George S Patton

Leadership Quote # 16

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S Patton

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 17 Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision. Colin Powell

Leadership Quote # 17

Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

Colin Powell

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 18 To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. Harry Truman

Leadership Quote # 18

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Harry Truman

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 19 The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. Henry Ford

Leadership Quote # 19

The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Henry Ford

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 20 Effective leadership is about earning respect. Alan Sugar

Leadership Quote # 20

Effective leadership is about earning respect.

Alan Sugar

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 21 The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership. Jim Loehr

Leadership Quote # 21

The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership.

Jim Loehr

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 22 Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Goethe

Leadership Quote # 22

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Goethe

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 23 Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. Winston Churchill

Leadership Quote # 23

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 24 The leader’s job is not to cover all the bases - it is to see that all bases are covered. James Crupi

Leadership Quote # 24

The leader’s job is not to cover all the bases - it is to see that all bases are covered.

James Crupi

Leadership Quotations Leadership Quote # 25 To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves! Lao-Tsu

Leadership Quote # 25

To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

Lao-Tsu

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