Quotes about Leadership

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

Leadership is affirming people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Leadership can eventually become a choice not a position.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No

Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances. Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.

That leadership is primarily a function of who you are, for this is the foundation for everything you do. How do you build leaders? You first build character.

There might be exceptions—and if so, you might rethink their employment—but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution—to find purpose in their work.

Level 5 leaders display a paradoxical combination of personal humility and professional will, channelling their energy, drive, creativity and discipline in to something larger and more enduring than themselves.

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.