I am in a Leadership class, and this page of quotes was handed out to us.. Just wanted to share them with you, I found some to be really good.. If you don't like them, I dont care. 🙂
1. Unknown: Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves.
2. Chinese proverb: An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
3. Unknown: A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
6. Talleyrand: I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
7. Ralph Nader: I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
8. John Maxwell: The first step to leadership is servanthood.
9. Warren Bennis: Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.
10. Henry Miller: The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
11. Coco Chanel: It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.
12. Albert Einstein: Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
13. Karen Kaiser Clark: Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
14. Muriel Strode: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
15. Fred Fiedler and Martin Chemers: The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.
16. David Loyd George: Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
17. Winston Churchill: Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
18. Lao Tse: When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
19. Peter Drucker: Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.
20. George Patton: Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
21. Ross Perot: Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
22. Mahatma Gandhi: We must become the change we want to see.
23. Erica Jong: The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
24. Andrew Carnegie: No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
25. Max DePree: The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
26. John Seely Brown Processes don't do work, people do.
27. Harold Geneen: Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
28. Henry Kissinger: The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
29. Ray Kroc: The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
30. Thomas Jefferson: In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
31. Henry Ford: If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right.
1. Unknown: Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves.
2. Chinese proverb: An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
3. Unknown: A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
6. Talleyrand: I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
7. Ralph Nader: I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
8. John Maxwell: The first step to leadership is servanthood.
9. Warren Bennis: Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.
10. Henry Miller: The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
11. Coco Chanel: It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.
12. Albert Einstein: Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
13. Karen Kaiser Clark: Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
14. Muriel Strode: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
15. Fred Fiedler and Martin Chemers: The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.
16. David Loyd George: Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
17. Winston Churchill: Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
18. Lao Tse: When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
19. Peter Drucker: Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.
20. George Patton: Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
21. Ross Perot: Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
22. Mahatma Gandhi: We must become the change we want to see.
23. Erica Jong: The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
24. Andrew Carnegie: No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
25. Max DePree: The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
26. John Seely Brown Processes don't do work, people do.
27. Harold Geneen: Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
28. Henry Kissinger: The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
29. Ray Kroc: The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
30. Thomas Jefferson: In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
31. Henry Ford: If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right.
