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LEADERSHIP QUOTES

BE INSPIRED BY THE WISE WORDS OF OTHERS

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

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To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years requires a lot of disciplines.

STEVE JOBS

I’ll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn’t pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

WAYNE CALLOWAY

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.

PETER F. DRUCKER

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If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.

ROBERT F. MAGER

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The best way to predict your future is to create it

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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To add value to others, one must first value others.

JOHN C MAXWELL

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Contrary to the opinion of many people, leaders are not born. Leaders are made, and they are made by effort and hard work.

VINCE LOMBARDI

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

HAROLD S. GENEEN

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do.

CARLOS GHOSN

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

SIR JOHN HARVEY-JONES

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There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

WARREN BENNIS

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

KENNETH BLANCHARD

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Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

PETER BLOCK

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It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

RAY BLUNT

Leadership is unlocking other people's potential to become better.

BILL BRADLEY

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

ROSALYNN CARTER

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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

STEPHEN COVEY

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

DIANNE FEINSTEIN

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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

HARVEY S. FIRESTONE

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

HENRY FORD

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

BILL GATES

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It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.

ANDREW HARVEY

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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

CONRAD HILTON

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If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

BENJAMIN HOOKS

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Leadership is a posture and a choice, not a role that must be bestowed on you. Step up and be a leader when no one is watching or expecting you to do so.

JOHN IZZO & MARSHALL GOLDSMITH

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

DAVID S. JORDAN

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

KEN KESEY

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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

STEPHEN KING

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The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.

HENRY KISSINGER

When people feel trusted, they'll do almost anything under the sun not to disappoint the person who gave them the gift of trust.

ROB LEBOW

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Survival of the fittest is not the same as survival of the best. Leaving leadership development up to chance is foolish.

MORGAN MCCALL

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Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

HENRY MINTZBERG

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Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.

TOM PETERS

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True leadership lies in guiding others to success-in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

BILL OWENS

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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

RONALD REAGAN

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through-then follow through.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

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There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, 'What happened?'

CASEY STENGEL

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Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

BRIAN TRACY

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The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

BRIAN TRACY

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We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it - not like the cat that sits on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

MARK TWAIN

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

SAM WALTON

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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

JACK WELCH