Leadership
Quotes

Leaders think. They think because they are leaders. They are leaders because they think.
- Paul Parker

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
- Harold Geneen

Leadership carries responsibilities and obligations. It is easy to be ambitious for leadership, but it is difficult to bear the burdens which real leadership entails.
- Ben S. Gilmer

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic o intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader an follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
- Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership has to be more than moral posture: it must bring a payment in cash.
- Stanley Hoffmann

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
- John Naisbitt

Leadership is a relation to which the leaders, the followers, and the requirements of the situation, including the traditions of the group, all contribute
- Social Science Research council's Committee on Historiography

Leadership is among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it-short term pain for long term-gain.
- George F. Will

Leadership is fired in the forge of ambition and opportunity.
- James MacGregor Burns

Leadership is generally defined as the capacity to make things happen that would otherwise not happen.
- Thomas E. Cronin