To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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