If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
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.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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.
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.
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
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