Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Earn your leadership every day.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
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.
It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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