Favorite Leadership Quotes
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has!"
Margaret Mead
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think leadership comes from integrity – that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity.
Scott Berkun
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.
Peter Drucker
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Margaret Mead
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think leadership comes from integrity – that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity.
Scott Berkun
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.
Peter Drucker
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs