If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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 cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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