Best leadership & good-leadership Quotes

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.”

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Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.”

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Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.”

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Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

“Leaders are not born, they're made.”

“Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.”

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.”

“What you can't enforce, do not command.”

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Author:Sophocles

“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.”

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Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

“Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

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

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Author:John Quincy Adams

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”

“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

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Book: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.”

Book:Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr

Source: Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr

“In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.”

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Author:Ken Blanchard

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”

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

“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.”

“Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”

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Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”

“High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“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.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

Source: Politics

“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.”

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”

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Author:John J. Pershing

“A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!”

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.”

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“Good leaders must first become good servants.”

“Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.”

“Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.”

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Author:Laozi

“Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.”

“The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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