Famous Quotes About leadership

Leadership is lifting a persons vision to higher sights, the raising of a persons performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

I think leadership comes from integrity - that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity.

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

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.