(3363 quotes found)
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
Stephen R. Covey
“My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.”
Sonny Perdue
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
Jack Welch
“A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.”
David R. Gergen
“Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
Peter F. Drucker
“Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.”
Bill Owens
“What you cannot enforce, do not command.”
Sophocles
“One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.”
Dennis A. Peer
“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.”
Robert Townsend
“Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.”
Max Depree