Famous Leadership QuotesThese famous leadership quotes are grouped as follows: - Management The power of these quotes is not in the wording itself, but in how much these quotes have influenced people, organizations, and even nations all over the world. These leadership quotes will give you a good idea of what leadership is about. Famous Leadership Quotes - Management Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. All Leadership is influence. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. Where there is no vision, the people perish. What you cannot enforce, do not command. Famous Leadership Quotes - Learning and Development The best leaders are the best note takers, best askers and best learners - they are shameless thieves. Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. He that cannot obey cannot command. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. Famous Leadership Quotes - Recruiting 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. No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. Famous Leadership Quotes - Inspiration If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader - a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves. Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already. Famous Leadership Quotes - War I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. Famous Leadership Quotes - Humor Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women. Famous Leadership Quotes - by Not So Famous Authors The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. 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. Famous Leadership Quotes - Timeless Truths Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Famous Leadership Quotes - My Favorite These famous leadership quotes are my favorite because if you follow what they say, you will build a high performance organization. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. Leaders don't create followers - they create more leaders. A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. Example is not the main thing in influencing others - it is the only thing. The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I". And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I". They don't think "I". They think "we"; they think "team". They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. –––~~~••• O •••~~~––– If you would like your organization to put into practice the meaning of some of these famous leadership quotes through my speaking or consulting services, please click on this link. To keep on learning about the skills you need to manage the performance of your direct reports, go to my Management Skills page. To learn more about the skills you need to lead the performance of your entire organization, go to my Leadership Skills page.
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