Leadership Quotes

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

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

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

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things, but the one who gets people to do the greatest things.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt.

Example is not the main thing. It is the only thing.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

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

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