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Leadership Quotes
1. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Leadership is something you earn, something you’re chosen for. You can’t come in yelling, ‘I’m your leader!’ If it happens, it’s because the other guys respect you. Ben Roethlisberger
3. Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader. Leymah Gbowee
4. Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. Andy Grove
5. Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca
6. My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they have a meaningful impact. Larry Page
7. A leader leads by example not by Force. Sun Tzu
8. “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior. 1 Timothy 2:1-2
9. Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people. N. R. Narayana Murthy
10. No on else in the world has the same strengths you do because God created all of us individually.
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11. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. Indra Nooyi
12. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. John C. Maxwell
13. My jobs is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better. Steve Jobs
14. Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want to be done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
15. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want to be done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
16. To lead the people, walk behind them. Lao-Tzu
17. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr.
18. I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words. Ander Crenshaw
19. Leadership is not about top down decisions, but it’s about caring for people and their dreams.
20. Leadership Quotes By Women Leadership Quotes – Eleanor Roosevelt To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt
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21. Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership. Bill Owens
22. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell
23. The highest of distinctions is service to others. King George VI
24. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin Powell
25. Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country. Justin Trudeau
26. If ‘leadership’ has come to be known as something much bigger than us, aligned to changing the world, then we are spending way too much time celebrating things that hardly anyone can do and not celebrating things we can do every day. Drew Dudley
27. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
28. Leadership Quotes From The Bible Leadership Quotes You were created by God, hard wired with talents and personality traits that are unique to just you
29. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
30. One of my beliefs about leadership is it’s not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener. Robert Kraft
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31. Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Paul Hawken
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33. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
34. “Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream. Peter McWilliams
35. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. Sam Walton
36. 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. Lao Tzu
37. Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mid-action. Simon Sinek
38. Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully, I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader. Steve Nash
39. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular. Martin O’Malley
40. One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t. Kyrie Irving
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41. A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care. Simon Sinek
42. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach. 1 Timothy 3:2
43. Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Hebrews 13:7
44. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. John Naisbitt
45. Famous Leadership Quotes Leadership Quotes – Peter F. Drucker Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing. Peter F. Drucker
46. Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right. Robert Kraft
47. You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower
48. You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. Gene Mauch
49. The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It’s all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure. Pierre Nanterme
50. You have to think anyway, so why not think big? Donald Trump