WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half


Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf


To lead the people, walk behind them.
Lao Tzu


What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.
Elizabeth Dole


As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates


Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John Maxwell


One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold Glasgow


The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh


The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt


I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader


Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey


The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippman


The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Chruchill


Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy


If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs


Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
Jesse Jackson


A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell


Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average
Jim Rohn


Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you.
Henry Gilmer


People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those people who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
Oliver Wendell Holmes