Leadership
Quotes

It is extremely difficult to lead farther than you have gone yourself.
- Unknown

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
- Laurence J. Peter

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
- Gail Sheehy

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who d things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing the wrong thing well.
- Warren Bennis

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
- Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders are...characterized by constant activity, by an ability to understand and appreciate the position of another person, a self-disciplined personality, and willingness to fight for what they believe. Superior intelligence may be important, but if that intelligence is greatly superior to the group, such a person is apt to be suspect and hence not permitted to lead.
- Carl G. Gustavson

Leaders do not rest on their laurel for long if they expect to remain leaders. Initiative is a necessary quality for anyone who aspires to rise above the crowd clustered at the foot of the ladder of success; it is characteristic of all true leaders.
- Boyd Lindop

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
- John P. Kotter

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
- H. G. Wells