A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
– Dwight D Eisenhower
Countries that quit producing real products, spend more than they produce, lag in education, burden their middle class with higher taxes, and continue to import billions from other countries, bail out failed businesses and reward bad behavior instead of investing in good businesses, will eventually lose their leadership and wealth
– Med Jones
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
– Peter Drucker
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
– Stephen Covey
For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
– William Allen White
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
– John D. Rockefeller
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
– Ralph Nader
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
– John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
– Jesse Louis Jackson
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
– William Arthur Wood
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.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
– Harold S. Geneen
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
– Warren Bennis
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
– Marian Anderson
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Management is how well it runs when you are there: Leadership is how well it runs when you are not.
– Chase Leblanc
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 S Truman
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
– Arnold Glasgow
Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it's your idea, you get to implement it.
– Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr.
The challenge is that CEOs now think like global investors, while the political leadership thinks like local civil servants. Getting the right policies to attract and develop talented labor, capital and diversify the income sources will determine the prosperity and wealth of the people of each nation.
