“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.”
“Tasks must be delegated without responsibilities being abdicated.”
“History is filled with undistinguished leaders who succeeded because they had a flair for selecting sound counselors.”
“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.”
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
“Great leadership arises out of great conflict.”
“Leadership is generally defined as the capacity to make things happen that would otherwise not happen.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head—that's assault, not leadership.”
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
“You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles…. Other people can cope with the waves, it’s his job to watch the tide.”
“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.”
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
“Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.”
“First organize the inner, then organize the outer…. First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, then organize others.”
“Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.”
“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.”
“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.”
“Leadership is more than technique, though techniques are necessary. In a sense, management is prose; leadership is poetry…. The manager thinks of today and tomorrow. The leader must think of the day after tomorrow. A manager represents a process. The leader represents a direction of history.”
“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.”
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
“Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
“Leadership involves conduct. Conduct is determined by values. Values are what makes us who we are.”
“When placed in command—take charge.”
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.”
“Leadership is, among other things, the ablity to inflict pain and get away with it—short-term pain for long-term gain.”
“Education is the mother of leadership.”