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| To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves! (Lao-tsu) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch. (Jesus Christ) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. (Winston Churchill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. (Dee Hock) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. (G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. (Henry Kissinger) | [▲] | [▼] |
| No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. (Peter Drucker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership. (Dwight D. Eisenhower) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest. (Hesiod) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Never give an order that can't be obeyed. (General Douglas MacArthur) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away. (Admiral James B. Stockdale) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. (General Colin Powell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. (Harry Truman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership. (Gary Wills, Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction. (J. Robert Clinton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All Leadership is influence. (John C. Maxwell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy. (Wu Ch'i) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. (Sam Rayburn) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. (Walter Lippmann) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.' (Lao-Tse) | [▲] | [▼] |