"LEADERSHIP QUOTES FOR EXECUTIVES"
"I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for people. I choose to make a difference."
Bill Richardson
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
Napoleon Bonaparte --- Submitted by Monish VT --- Kerala, India
"The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture."
Ken Langone, founder, Home Depot
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
Ronald Regan
"Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another."
John Maxwell
"Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character."
Warren Bennis
"Leadership: The qualities of leadership are clearly shown in animal life. At the first sign of danger, the leader of the herd steps out of the crowd, the others, and walk towards the danger. Always! Or he will not continue to be leader. So you see the risks of leadership are very great. Being a leader is no job for the timid. It requires more than brains and personality."
Copyright © 2002 Anil Patel
"Successful leaders recognize that great innovation comes from observing the same ideas as everyone else and seeing something different."
Reed Markham, American educator --- Submitted by R.B. --- Utah
"Leadership isn't the talent at handling the reins, but the ability to pull the sled."
Copyright © 2002 Brandon Wozniewicz
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, the people will say, 'We did it ourselves.'"
Lao Tzu
"The art of leadership is keeping the right people in the right place."
Copyright © 2004 Chinnappan Baskar
"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.Bernard M. Baruch
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
Indira Gandhi --- Submitted by Anu G. --- California
My Inspiration
"Leadership: All it takes is someone who follows"
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Give whatever you are doing and with whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
Jim Rohn
"Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it."
Henry Mintzberg
"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing an enhancing."
Tom Peters
"Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership."
Peter Drucker
"There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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