Quotes About Leadership

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Leadership comes with consistency.

It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship

A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.