Leadership Quotes

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.