Quotes about Leadership

Trust is earned (more realistically it is lent) every time leaders do what they say they will do, do it with excellence, and do

If I had to add anything, it would be that team leadership may be the most challenging of all leadership roles. In this arena, the team leader must lay aside his or her mantle of positional leader and take on the role of a servant leader, serving the task of the team as well as the individual members.

Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

Wouldn't you rather be asked a question than be given an order?

These are lessons Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars certainly takes to heart.

As a leader, you will gain a more complete picture of their work and become a better coach and mentor for it.

President Lincoln was a master communicator, and humility was at the heart of all he said.

Great leaders are folks who are passionate about and confident in the work they do, and they inspire others to do so in the process. Dale

Influence requires more intuition than intellect.

We can't all be captains; we've got to be crew. There's something for all of us here. There's big work to do and there's lesser to do and the task we must do is the near. If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, if you can't be the sun, be a star; it isn't by the size that you win or you fail, be the best of whatever you are!

I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.

One can, for example, hire mere technical ability in engineering, accountancy, architecture or any other profession at nominal salaries. But the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people — that person is headed for higher earning power.