“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.”
Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success
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“The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
“I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.”
Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s
Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Source: The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible
“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
Source: Chronicles of the Cross Collection
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”
Source: My American Journey
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Source: Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr
“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
“Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.”
“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”
Source: My American Journey