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Leadership Quotes

Leader is someone whom others follow. Leadership quality helps a person not only lead his/her society, but also govern himself. It makes a person different from others, in that he does not follow anyone, and provides him an attitude to shape the people around him. The simplest way to know the qualities that make a leader is by going through the leadership quotes by eminent people of the world. In the following lines, we provided a number of such quotations. Go through these famous sayings and know about the persona that a good leader should have.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Right Management
Peter Drucker

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Reality Vision
Warren G. Bennis

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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Right
Henry Ford

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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Art
Tony Blair

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Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George

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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Necessity Opinion Order People
Thomas Jefferson

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
People Work
Lao Tzu

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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Good People Work
John D. Rockefeller

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

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

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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
People
Warren G. Bennis

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
Hope Vision
George Washington Carver

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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Good
Peter Drucker

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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Music Dancing
Warren G. Bennis

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Laurence J. Peter

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Life Advice Order Purpose
Thomas Paine

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A leader is a dealer in hope.
Hope
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
Being Yourself Belief Comparisons Dominance
George Carlin

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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
People Victory
Nelson Mandela

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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie

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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford

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The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Advice People Breakup Teamwork
Adolf Hitler

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
People Work
Lao Tzu

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Battles Nation
Golda Meir

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

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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

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Example is leadership.
Example
Albert Schweitzer

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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
Warren G. Bennis

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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
Warren G. Bennis

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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu

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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James

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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Greatness Uniqueness
Woodrow Wilson

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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne

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We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy.
People
Robert Kennedy

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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Eric Hoffer

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
Quality
William James

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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

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The cautious seldom err.
Confucius

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
People Time
Mahatma Gandhi

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I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
Greatness People
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Be the chief but never the lord.
Lao Tzu

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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Women
Gloria Steinem

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In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.
Greatness Strength Government
Robert Kennedy

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The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.
Farewell People History Information
Anonymous

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