Leadership Quotes

Leadership Quotes

September 5, 2010


Leadership is like the Abominable Snowman, whose footprints are everywhere but who is nowhere to be seen.
- Warren Bennis


Leadership is more than technique, though techniques are necessary. In a sense, management is prose; leadership is poetry...The manager thinks of today and tomorrow. The leader must think of the day after tomorrow. A manager represents a process. The leader represents a direction of history.
- Richard M. Nixon


Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which contrary to tradition.
- Cyril Falls


Leadership means everything-pain, blood, death.
- Marcus Garvey


Leadership, at its highest peak, consists of getting people to work for you when they are under no obligation to do so.
- Ben S. Gilmer


Leadership, I think you must have that, particularly when a team's on the field, they look to you. In critical situations, they look into your eyes to see if you're there. If you're not there, they start quitting.
- Dan Marino, Sr.


Leadership-mobilization toward a common goal.
- Garry Wills


Learn to obey before you command.
- Solon


Man is not the sum of what he is but the totality of what he might be.
- Unknown


No leader, however great can long continue unless he wins victories.
- Bernard Law Montgomery