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Leadership Quotes

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The actions of a responsible executive are contagious.

– Joe D. Batton

Team leader’s encouragement = Team’s courage to believe.

– Lewis Losoncy

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

– Orlando A. Battista

Successful leadership requires positive self-regard fused with optimism about a desired outcome.

– Warren Bennis

Serve but don’t be servile. To really help someone does not require groveling to convince them of your sincerity.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

– Albert Einstein

Self-control is a critical leadership skill. Leaders generally are able to plan and work at a task over a longer time span than those they lead.

– Gerald Faust

Real heroes are those who encourage others to act heroically. Leaders make more leaders.

– Fast magazine, Memo to CEOs

Professionalism: It’s NOT the job you DO, It’s HOW you DO the job.

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

– H. Ross Perot

People don’t CARE how much you KNOW, until they KNOW how much you CARE.

Outstanding leaders have that special capacity to be able to read the capabilities of the people with whom they associate and extract higher standards of performance than the people themselves though they could display.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will enable us to do what we can.

Nothing is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Nobody in your organization will be able to sustain a level of motivation higher than you have as their leader.

Noah, when he heard the weather forecast, said “Build an ark!” That’s Leadership. When he got on the ark, he said “Don’t let the elephants see what the rabbits are doing!” That’s Management!

No one enjoys addressing others’ deficiencies. But failure to do so sends the message that people are on track when they really aren’t. And that may be the greatest disservice a leader can do to someone else.

– Eric Harvey

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

– Colin Powell

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

– Margaret Mead

Managers manage people and the human effort. Leaders focus on the deeper, non-physical dimension — energy, heart and spirit. Managers deal in organizational form, leaders embrace the unified culture and community.

– Jack Hawley

Management’s goal should be to do everything in their power to help others be as successful as possible. Management succeeds only when the rest of the organization succeeds.

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

– Warren Bennis

Managers control. Leaders create commitment.

– John Zenger

Managers cope with change. Leaders cause it and make the competition change.

– John Kolter

Managers have employees, leaders have followers.

– Workplace 2000

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success, leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

– Stephen Covey

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

– Anita Roddick

Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

– Warren Bennis

Little value comes out of the belief that people will respond progressively better by treating them progressively worse.

– Eric Harvey

Leadership without character is unthinkable – or should be.

– Warren Bennis

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