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| Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" – a leader says "Let’s go!" ~ E.M. Kelly |
| A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~ Author Unknown |
| Leadership is action, not position. ~ Donald H. McGannon |
| You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~ Gene Mauch |
| The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~ Elaine Agather |
| You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo, |
| Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~ Albert Schweitzer |
| Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ~ Robert Jarvik |
| You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~ Thomas J. Watson |
| If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A leader is a dealer in hope. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. ~ Tom Peters |
| The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. ~ Henry Miller, |
| If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~ Charles Maurice |
| A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. ~ Mark Brouwer |
| I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~ Indira Gandhi |
| Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~ Rudy Giuliani |
| A leader leads by example not by Force. ~ Sun Tzu |
| A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~ Golda Meir |
| The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt |
He led his regiment from behind -
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran,
His place was at the fore, O.
~ W.S. Gilbert |
| Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~ Vince Lombardi |
| We have great managers who haven’t spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven’t spent a day in surgical school? ~ Henry Mintzberg |
| Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ~ Author Unknown |
| The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ~ Tony Blair |
| Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~ Dave Barry |