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Leadership - The Gryffindor library of leadership quotes
"All leadership is influence"
- John Maxwell
"Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma"
- Alan Sugar
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes"
- Peter Drucker
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out"
- Stephen R. Covey
"Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own"
- Anne Mulcahy
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
- Ralph Nader
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
- Indira Gandhi
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other"
- John F. Kennedy
"Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows "
- James McNerney
"Leadership happens at every level of the organisation and no one can shirk from this responsibility"
- Jerry Junkins
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
- Jesse Jackson
"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it"
- John Naisbitt
"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy"
- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Leadership is action, not position"
- Donald McGannon
"Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others"
- John Maxwell
"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 Drucker
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitudes and in actions."
- Harold Geneen
"Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it"
- Harry S. Truman
"Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others"
- Anonymous
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality"
- Warren Bennis
"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it"
- Warren Bennis
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it"
- Marian Anderson
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things"
- Peter Drucker
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall"
- Stephen R. Covey
"Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them"
- Stephen Covey
"The first step to leadership is servanthood"
- John Maxwell
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership"
- Harvey S. Firestone
"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funnybone and the wishbone that go with it."
- Elaine Agather
"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership"
- Faye Wattleton
"The very essence of leadership is [that] you 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
"Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is the essence of leadership."
- Theodore H White
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