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.

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