Piognant Quotations

Leadership Quotations

What characterizes a good leader? Curiosity, empathy, practical intelligence, and courage.

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his peopleís excuse for failure.

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Becoming a CEO is not the end of the learning curve. It's more like a new beginning.

Leaders who are not planners are simply caretakers and gatekeepers.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

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

The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you will help them to become what they are capable of being.

The actions of a responsible executive are contagious.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am a prod.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?

You can't lead a calvalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am a prod.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership.

Very few natural-born leaders turn up in the workplace.

Two commanders ont he same field are always one too many.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

The actions of a responsible executive are contagious.

Very few natural-born leaders turn up in the workplace.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside where it functions best.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

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