Leadership Quotes

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Quincy Adams  

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower  

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ”

Eleanor Roosevelt  

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

John C. Maxwell  

“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. ”

Margaret Thatcher  

“"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

Estée Lauder  

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

Brian Tracy  

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.”

Queen Victoria  

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. ”

Mary D. Poole  

“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  

“Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ”

Steve Jobs  

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better. ”

Steve Jobs  

“There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. ”

Amelia Earhart  

“Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. ”

Margaret Wheatley  

“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests. ”

Gail Sheehy  

“You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization. ”

Anita Roddick  

“'Restore connection’ is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool. ”

Arianna Huffington  

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. ”

Ronald Reagan  

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. ”

Jack Welch  

“I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. ”

Jack Welch  

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. ”

George S. Patton Jr.  

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ”

John F. Kennedy  

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ”

Peter Drucker  

“There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.”

Klaus Balkenhol