Famous Quotes About leadership

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.