Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Leadership Quotes & Sayings

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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. - Rev. Jesse Jackson



The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. - Warren G. Bennis



Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Peter F. Drucker



The key to leadership is having people willing to follow you if only out of curiosity to see what's going to happen. - Mark L. Andreessen



Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. - E. James 'Jim' Rohn



Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. - Carl Sagan



Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. - Dwight David Eisenhower



I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others. - Barbara Mikulski



Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. - Harold Sydney Geneen



Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy



No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. - Peter F. Drucker



Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight David Eisenhower



Leadership is generally defined as the capacity to make things happen that would otherwise not happen. - Thomas E. Cronin



There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. - Bertolt Brecht



Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Benjamin Disraeli