A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
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.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
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.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.