Theodore Roosevelt on leadership versus being the boss
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Ralph Lauren on leadership and vision
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”
-Ralph Lauren
John Quincy Adams on who is the leader
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a Leader”
- John Quincy Adams
Ram Charan on choosing people to work with
“Real leaders, I have found, exhibit an enthusiasm for selecting people who are better than they are.”
- Ram Charan
John Quincy Adams on who is the leader
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
- John Quincy Adams
Daily Leadership Quote
Good leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience.
- Manual on military leadership
Peter Drucker on leadership
“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 high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
-Peter […]
What leaders must address
“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.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith
What the leader does
“A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do.”
-Anthony T. Dadovano
Warren Bennis tells us if leaders being born or made
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
-Warren G. Bennis