Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people
who do the right thing.
- Warren Bennis, Ph.D. 'On Becoming a Leader'
'Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not
dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.'
?Winston Churchill
'Control is not leadership; management is not leadership;
leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50%
of your time in leading yourself梱our own purpose, ethics,
principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those
with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.'
? Dee Hock
Founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa
'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.'
?John Kenneth Galbraith
'If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no
denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first
to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.'
? G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott
'The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to
where they have not been.'
? Henry Kissinger
'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
'The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to
elicit it, for the greatness is there already.'
?John Buchan
'You do not lead by hitting people over the head ?that's assault,
not leadership.'
? Dwight D. Eisenhower
'The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the
call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but
rest.'
?Hesiod
8th Century BC Greek poet
'Never give an order that can't be obeyed.'
?General Douglas MacArthur
'Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean
posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious
and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of
leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of
leaders
who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are
men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away
with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of
a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders
gain authority by giving it away.'
?Admiral James B. Stockdale
'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
'Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where
there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when
courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things
for the better.'
?Harry Truman
'The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by
leaders and followers. ...
Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary
supports for leadership.'
?Gary Wills
Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders
'A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move
in a God-given direction.'
?J. Robert Clinton
'All Leadership is influence.'
?John C. Maxwell
Injoy, Inc.
'Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict
heed. The first of these is administration; the second,
reparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence;
and the fifth, economy.'
?Wu Ch'i (430-381 BC)
'You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless
you know how to follow, too.'
?Sam Rayburn
'Your position never gives you the right to command. It only
imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may
receive your orders without being humiliated.'
?Dag Hammarskj鰈d
'The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other
men, the conviction and the will to carry on.'
?Walter Lippmann
'A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good
when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But
of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim
fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.''
?Lao-Tse
'People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader
leads, and the boss drives.'
?Theodore Roosevelt
'Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.'
?Harold Geneen
'The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The
last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a
servant.'
?Max DePree
'Four rules of leadership in a free legislative body:
First, no matter how hard-fought the issue, never get personal.
Don't say or do anything that may come back to haunt you on another
issue, another day....
Second, do your homework. You can't lead without knowing what
you're talking about....
Third, the American legislative process is one of give and take.
Use your power as a leader to persuade, not intimidate....
Fourth, be considerate of the needs of your colleagues, even if
they're at the bottom of the totem pole....'
?George Bush
Former President of the United States
'Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.'
?Theodore Roosevelt
'Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the
right wall.'
?Stephen R. Covey
'He who has great power should use it lightly.'
?Seneca
'How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other
way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a
group.'
?Sir John Harvey-Jones
'He makes a great mistake ... who supposes that authority is firmer
or better established when it is founded by force than that which
is welded by affection.'
?Terence
'The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to
make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows.'
?Clarence Randall
'You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go.
You lead by going to that place and making a case.'
?Ken Kesey
'Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's
following you.'
?Henry Gilmer
'Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a
glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people',
that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher
sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard,
the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.'
?Peter F. Drucker
'Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a
creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery
of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of
mutual respect, compatible with personal values.'
?Mike Vance
'The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more
I look at what they do.'
?Andrew Carnegie
'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.'
?General Montgomery
'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
'Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know
we could be.'
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
'In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is
called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher
moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to
each other. That time is now.'
?Wangari Maathai
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