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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt



To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tsu


Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon


If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton



I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen


Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower


In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer



The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill


I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli


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


Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy


The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippman


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


I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope


High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell


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


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


The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh


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.
Scott Berkun


The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Peter Drucker


Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs


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


It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

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