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| People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. (Theodore Roosevelt) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. (Harold Geneen) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. (Max DePree) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Four rules of leadership in a free legislative body: First, no matter how hard-fought the issue, never get personal. Don't say or do anything that may come back to haunt you on another issue, another day.... Second, do your homework. You can't lead without knowing what you're talking about.... Third, the American legislative process is one of give and take. Use your power as a leader to persuade, not intimidate.... Fourth, be considerate of the needs of your colleagues, even if they're at the bottom of the totem pole.... (President George H. W. Bush) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. (Theodore Roosevelt) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. (Stephen R. Covey) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He who has great power should use it lightly. (Seneca) | [▲] | [▼] |
| "The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows. (Clarence Randall) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. (Ken Kesey) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you. (Henry Gilmer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. (Peter F. Drucker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. (Adlai Stevenson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. (Albert Einstein) | [▲] | [▼] |
| But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. (Carl Sagan) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. (Dwight D. Eisenhower) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. (Edwin H. Friedman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it. (Elizabeth Dole) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. (Ernest Becker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week. If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and mis-representatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks. (Eugene V. Debs) | [▲] | [▼] |