- Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
— Donald Rumsfeld - Earn your leadership every day.
― Michael Jordan - Education is the mother of leadership.
― Wendell Willkie - Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
― Peter Drucke - Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
― Stephen Covey - Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
― General Colin Powell - Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
― John Zenger - He who has great power should use it lightly.
― Seneca - He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
― Solon - He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
― Aristotle - I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t.
― D. D. Myers - I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
― Warren Bennis - I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
― Herbert Swope - I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
― Benjamin Disraeli - I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
― Ralph Nader - If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
― Maya Angelou - If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
― Benjamin Franklin - If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
― John Quincy Adams - In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
― Thomas Jefferson
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
― Latin Proverb
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