Best Leadership Quotes

Leaders need to be optimists.  Their vision is beyond the present.  ~Rudy Giuliani


A leader leads by example not by Force.  ~Sun Tzu


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


The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.  ~Theodore Roosevelt


He led his regiment from behind -
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran,
His place was at the fore, O.
~W.S. Gilbert


Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.  ~Vince Lombardi


We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school.  Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school?  ~Henry Mintzberg


Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.  ~Author Unknown


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


There is a significant difference between a leader and a cheerleader.  ~Author Unknown


I praise loudly, I blame softly.  ~ Catherine the Great


Leadership:  the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command.  Very often, that person is crazy.  ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his men.  ~Author Unknown


Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.  ~Anne Bradstreet


A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.  He inspires the power and energy to get it done.  ~Ralph Nader


Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.  ~Charles Simic


Management is nothing more than motivating other people.  ~Lee Iacocca


There go my people.  I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.  ~Alexandre Ledru-Rollin


I am not a labor leader.  I don't want you to follow me or anyone else.  If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are.  I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.  ~Eugene V. Debs


To lead the people, walk behind them.  ~Lao-Tzu


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

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