Quotes About Leadership

People need your influence, but it will not come through 'lip syncing' those you admire.

Occasionally someone will ask me about how ego fits into the leadership equation. They'll want to know what keeps a leader from having a huge ego. I think the answer lies in each leader's pathway to leadership. If people paid their dues and gave their best in obscurity, ego is usually not a problem.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership, on the other hand, has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

If you want to be successful as a person and as a leader, you must make choices. You must prioritize. You cannot have it all. No one can.

you can care about people without leading them, but you cannot lead people well without caring about them.

Uno no puede enemistarse con las personas e influir en ellas al mismo tiempo».

If you've been given a leadership position, then you've been given your boss's permission to lead. If you've earned influence on Level 2, then you have acquired your people's permission to lead. That's powerful.

En el liderazgo, no importa dónde usted esté en la organización, lo más importante es, siempre, la influencia.

Las personas podrán honrarte por lo que hiciste ayer, pero te respetan por lo que haces ahora. Valoro el ayer, pero vivo hoy.

Un líder es grande, no por su poder, sino por su habilidad de hacer surgir poder a otros.

REMIND YOURSELF THAT LEADERSHIP IS A PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it's 85 percent people knowledge.

Connectors do the difficult work of keeping it simple.

Where trust is absent, leadership falters.

Am I adding value to people?

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

The larger the group, the simpler the communication needs to be.

En muchas organizaciones, al ir escalando posiciones, se dará cuenta que la cantidad de responsabilidad que conlleva aumenta más rápido que la cantidad de autoridad que usted recibe.

No puedes ser el instrumento del cambio si no experimentas ese cambio por ti mismo.

The way you take control of the direction of your life is to take responsibility for yourself and your everyday actions.

Even the most noble endeavors fail with immoral leadership.

when the real leader speaks, people listen. Leadership is influence-nothing more, nothing less.

Spend 80 percent of your time on the most promising 20 percent of the potential leaders around you.

You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink. If