1. You have no right
to manage others
if you are not
passionate
about what you do.
Bill Quiseng

2. 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.
Rosalynn Carter

3. 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 appreciate
your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

4. I suppose leadership
at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting
along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi

5. Set and demand
standards of excellence.
Anybody who accepts mediocrity
- in school, in job, in life –
- is a guy who compromises.
And when the leader compromises,
the whole damn organization
compromises.
Charles Knight Emerson

6. Effective leadership
is not about making
speeches or being liked;
leadership is defined by
results not attributes.
Peter Drucker

7. I forgot to shake hands
and be friendly.
It was an
important lesson
about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

8. Don't tell people
how to do things,
tell them what to do
and let them surprise you
with their results.
George S. Patton

9. Leadership
can be thought of
as a capacity
to define oneself to others
in a way that clarifies
and expands a vision
of the future.
Edwin H. Friedman

10. If you want one year
of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years
of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years
of prosperity, grow people.
Chinese proverb

11. 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

12. Most important,
leaders can conceive
and articulate goals
that lift people out
of their petty preoccupations
and unite them in pursuit
of objectives worthy
of their best efforts.
John Gardner

13. Leadership
is the capacity
to translate
vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis, President
University of Southern California

14. Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people
aren't used to an
environment where
excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

15. If you want to build a ship,
don't drum up the men
to gather wood, divide the work
and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn
for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exuperv

16. The key to successful
leadership today
is influence,
not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard

17. An outstanding leader
clearly articulates the
goals and objectives
and makes sure every member
of the organization
understands the role
he or she plays
in achieving these goals.
Jack Bingleman, President, Staples

18. Leadership is not a 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 high sights,
the raising of a person's performance
to a higher standard,
the building of a personality
beyond its normal limitations.
Peter F. Drucker

19. Customer satisfaction
starts with
employee satisfaction.
Charlie P. Crockett
Sales Director, 3M

20. 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."
Jim Rohn

21. If your actions
inspire others
to dream more,
learn more, do more
and become more,
you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

22. A leader
is one
who knows the way,
goes the way,
and shows the way.
John Maxwell

23. 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

24. 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.
Theodore Hesburgh, President
Norte Dame University

25. No man
will make a great leader
who wants to do it all
himself or to get all
the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

26. 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

27. The job
of leadership today
is not just
to make money.
It’s to make meaning.
John Seely Brown
Director, XEROX Parc

28. 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.
Sam Walton

29. You can take great people,
highly trained and motivated,
and put them in a lousy system
and the system will win
all the time.
Geary Rummier, President
The Rummier-Bache Group

30. But of a good leader
who talks little
when his work is done,
his aim fulfilled,
they will say,
"We did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu