Leadership Quotes

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.