Yet More Leadership Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”
– Earl Nightingale

“Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.”
– Eddie Robinson

“The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.”
– Elaine Agather

“For those who say you’re thinking too big… be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small … be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?… look them in the eyes and say, Ill figure it out.”
– Eric Schmidt, Chairman Of Google

“The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.”
– Eugene B. Habecker

“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. ”
– General Colin Powell

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
– General Colin Powell

“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.”
– General Colin Powell

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
– George S. Patton

“A true leader has to have genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.”
– Harold Geneen

“Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity.”
– Harold J. Seymour

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
– Harold S. Geneen

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
– Harold S. Geneen

“To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.”
– Harry Truman

“It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain, if you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees, if you want 100 years of happiness, grow people.”
– Harvey Mackay

“The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.”
– Henry Miller

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have travelled from the point where they started.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A leader’s job is to look into the future and see the organization, organization, not as it is, but as it should be.”
– Jack Welch

“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their Wings-and put compensation as a carrier behind it- you almost don’t have to manage them.”
– Jack Welch

“Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.”
– Jim Rohn

“As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.”
– Jim Rohn

“The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.”
– Jim Rohn

“It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.”
– Joe Klock

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself.”
– Joel A. Barker

“The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.”
– John Baldoni

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”
– John C. Maxwell

“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not to enrich the leader.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
– John D. Rockefeller

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