Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. (Booker T. Washington)
The price of greatness is responsibility. (Winston Churchill)
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership. (Lee Iacocca)
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and
not much else, is the essence of leadership. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Leadership is a choice, not a position.(Steven Covey)
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. (Joseph
Addison)
A
leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. (John C. Maxwell)
The
quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set forthemselves. (Ray Kroc)
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts.It's
about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for
others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. (Chris Hadfield)
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his
goal. (E. Joseph Cossman)
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right
things. (Peter Drucker)
It is
better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will
appreciateyourleadership. (Nelson Mandela).
The
growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. (Harvey S. Firestone)
When
the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' (Lao Tzu)
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. (Colin
Powell)
I
know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their
efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. (Queen Elizabeth II)
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to
inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm. (Sebastian Coe)
It is
essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
(Dee Hock)
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the
raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. (Peter Drucker)
He
who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. (Aristotle)
The
best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. (Theodore
Roosevelt)
āThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable manā (George Bernard Shaw).
