A leader is a dealer in hope.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
— Ray Kroc
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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.
True leadership lies in guiding others to success—in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do, and doing it well.
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.
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
— Jim Rohn
Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
A leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
— Lao Tzu
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists.
— Lao Tzu
A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Leadership is not about being the best. Leadership is about making everyone else better.
— Unknown
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
— Jim Rohn
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but by the presence of clear strengths.
The highest of distinctions is service to others.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.
Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
Leadership is an action, not a position.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people.
The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Leadership is not just about giving energy... it’s unleashing other people’s energy.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
To add value to others, one must first value others.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.