Famous Leadership Quote

Famous Leadership Quote

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker

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

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx

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

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 is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold Geneen

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson

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

Leadership is influence.
John C. Maxwell

Leadership is an action, not a position.
Donald H. McGannon

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Karl Raimund Popper

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement. F. G. “Buck” Rodgers

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Jim Rohn

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
Jan Masaryk
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
James L. Fisher

You are kidding. Russ and I were good friends. I was sorry to learn that he passed away.David Brown

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
Patricia Heaton



First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to zip up your fly, and then you forget to unzip your fly.
Branch Rickey

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau