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Leadership Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!) A leader is best when people barely know that he exists...when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, ‘We did this ourselves’. - Lao Tzu (c604-c531 BC), Chinese philosopher, pictured right.
This is why Lao Tzu also says: To lead people walk behind them (similar to the South African leader Nelson Mandela’s , pictured right, idea of leading from behind)
Other related quotes are: The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him. - Mary Parker Follett, pictured right, in Dynamic Administration (1941)
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919, pictured right , American steel manufacturer
And when we think we lead, we are most led. (from the 1821 play The Two Foscari) - Lord Byron (1788-1824), pictured right, English writer.
Only by standing on their [followers’] shoulders can true greatness in leadership be achieved. - James MacGregor Burns (1918- ) American leadership expert, pictured right, in Leadership (1978)
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), British prime minister, pictured right. (another British prime minister Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, said the same) In following him, I follow myself, (Iago talking about Othello in Othello) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
The true leader is always led - Carl Jung (1875–1961),Swiss psychologist, pictured right.
No 2 You need courage born on integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behaviour is beyond reproach. - Kanosuke Matsushita (1894-1989), founder of Panasonic, pictured right. Confucius (551-479 BC), the Chinese philosopher (pictured right), also made two wise comments about the character of a leader: The character of the leader is like the wind, and that of the people grass. The grass bends when the wind blows upon it. The true leader takes humanity as his burden Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), pictured right, the Italian philosopher, takes a different view: A prince should not deviate from what is good, if that is possible, but he should know how to do evil, if that is necessary
No 3 The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor, - Max De Pree, pictured right, Leadership is an Art (1989)
This idea of servant leadership originated from Robert Greenleaf’s, pictured right, book Servant Leadership (1977). Here are two quotes from it: The great leader is seen as servant first. The servant always accepts and empathizes, never rejects.
No 4 Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done, because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general and president , pictured right.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), another American president, pictured right , says something similar: A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.
No 5 If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), pictured right, American president. Lincoln also comments: I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me
No 6 Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton (1834–1902) British historian, pictured right.
No 7 The endurance of organizations depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests, - Chester Barnard, pictured right. The Functions of the Executive (1938)
So Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), pictured right, the American president, says: The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is permanently a place of moral leadership.
No 8 The task of leadership is to make the status quo more dangerous than launching into the unknown. - John Harvey-Jones (1924-2008), boss of the British chemicals company, ICI , pictured right.
No 9 The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'. - Harry Gordon Selfridge (1856-1947), American founder of the London department store, Selfridge’s, pictured right.
No 10 Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right. - John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher, pictured right
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power
No 11 A leader leads by example, not by force. - Sun Tzu (lived around 500 BC) a Chinese general, pictured right.
No 12 Effective leadership is a combination of idealism and practical efficiency. - Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American president, pictured right.
No 13 Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women. - Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film and TV star, pictured right.
No 14 Power based on love is a thousand times more effective than power derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian leader and philosopher, pictured right.
William (Bill) Slim (1891-1970) World War Two British general, pictured right, agrees: If you are any good, you know your men better than their mothers do and you love them just as much.
No 15 Every subject’s duty is the king’s, but every subject’s soul is his own, (Henry V in Henry V) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
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16 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 (1889–1974), American journalist, pictured right.
No 17 Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. (Henry IV in Henry IV Part 2) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
No 18 If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. - Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), American president, pictured right.
No 19 It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant, (Isabella in Measure for Measure) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
No 20 Leaders don’t inflict pain; they bear pain. - Max De Pree, pictured right, Leadership is an Art (1989)
No 21 Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch, American boss of General Electric 1981-2001, pictured right.
No 22 It is essential for an officer to have that respect...If he loses it, he ceases to command. And what happens then? Demoralization and chaos. - Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) in the film, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), pictured right.
No 23 True leaders...do or live what they preach or require in others. - John Adair, pictured right, Effective Leadership 1983
No 24 That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. - James MacGregor Burns (pictured right), Leadership (1978)
No 25 Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. - Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) British World War Two general, pictured right.
So Montgomery makes two other comments on leadership: The beginning of leadership is a battle for hearts and minds of men. The leader must have infectious enthusiasm.
No 26 A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), ruler of France, pictured right.
No 27 A leader has to have a vision of grandeur, a vision that can produce eager followers in vast numbers. In business, the followers are the customers, - Theodore (Ted) Levitt, pictured right, Marketing Myopia (1960)
No 28 You have to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego, - Mike Brearley (1942-) ,England cricket captain, pictured right.
No 29 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) American president , pictured right.
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30 All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called ‘guessing what was at the other side of the hill’. - Duke of Wellington 1769–1852), British general and politician, pictured right.
No 31 Power is not a means, it is an end. (O’Brien in Nineteen Eighty-Four) - George Orwell (1903-50), pictured right, English writer.
No 32 It is far better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian philosopher, pictured right.
No 33 The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair (1953– ), British prime minister, pictured right.
No 34 The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. - Harry Gordon Selfridge (1856-1947), American founder of the London department store, Selfridge’s, pictured right.
No 35 A genuine leader is...a moulder of consensus. - Martin Luther King (1929–68), American civil rights leader, pictured right.
No 36 Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the people. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), British Prime Minister, pictured right.
No 37 The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) American Second World War and president, pictured right.
No 38 Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait, (General Kutuzov in the novel War and Peace) - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), pictured right, Russian writer.
No 39 Leaders create not followers but partners in the common enterprise. - John Adair, pictured right, Effective Leadership Masterclass (1996)
No 40 Leadership works through leadership and culture...Management works through hierarchy and systems, - John Kotter, pictured right, What Leaders Really Do (1999)
No 41 Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them, (Malvolio in Twelfth Night) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
No 42 Leadership is of the spirit...management is of the mind, - William (Bill) Slim (1891-1970) World War Two British general, pictured right
No 43 Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed, - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), pictured right, American president .
Truman also says: A president cannot always be popular.
No 44 Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates. -Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), ,pictured right, South African leader.
Mandela also says: To lead one’s people one must also truly know them,
No 45 But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? - Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), American president , pictured right
No 46 If you’re a leader of people, you’ve got to put people’s faults on one side and draw out all their good points. -Richard Branson (1950- ), English businessman, pictured right.
No 47 Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy (1917-63), pictured right, American president
No 48 All power is a trust…from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81), British prime minister, pictured right.
No 49 Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. - Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), pictured right, British prime minister.
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50 Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is co-ordinating those who work for me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. - Walt Disney (1901-1966), American film maker (pictured right)
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51 Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. - Tom Watson Jr. (1914-93), ex-boss of IBM (pictured right)
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52 Enable, not direct. Use carrots, not sticks. - Meg Whitman (1957-), chief executive of Hewlett-Packard since 2011 (pictured right)
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53 If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship. He would keep it in port forever. - St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), Italian philosopher (pictured right).
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54 He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. -Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher (pictured right)
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55 The difficulties in princes’ business are many and great, but the greatest difficulty is often in their own mind. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher and politician (pictured right)
No 56 It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing. - Muhammad (570-632), founder of the Islamic religion.
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57 The most important skill for any leader is the ability to take credit for things that happen on their own, - Scott Adams (pictured right) in The Dilbert Principle (1996)
No 58 The new leader...is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders. -Warren Bennis , pictured right above, and Burt Nanus, pictured right, in Leaders (1985)
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59 Execution - getting the task done, making it happen - is the most unappreciated skill of an effective business leader, - Lou Gerstner, pictured right, in Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance (2002)
No 60 Theory X leads naturally to an emphasis on the tactics of control. Theory Y, on the other hand, leads to a preoccupation with the nature of leadership. - Douglas McGregor (pictured right) in The Human Side of Enterprise (1960) |
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