The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I’m gone. But I know that the steps we’re taking are the right steps.
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Everything rises and falls on leadership.
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.
Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
I’ve always maintained – a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
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.
