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15 Inspiring Quotes on Leadership in Business

Sep 11, 2015

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Leadership is a learned skill. You can learn how to lead others by examining leaders you admire, by following their examples and listening to their advice. These quotes can help. Study the words and find out more about the leaders who spoke them--and whether they lived up to their own advice. See if their words make a difference in your leadership role.

 

1. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." Mario Andretti
3. "There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust." Klaus Balkenhol
4. "The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."Theodore Roosevelt
5. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." Ronald Reagan
6. "Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?"Margaret Thatcher
7. "A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls." Larry Crabb
8. "Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do." Warren G. Bennis
9. "Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." Winston Churchill
10. "Hire character. Train skill." Peter Schutz
11. "Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems." Brian Tracy
12. "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."Sam Walton
13. "If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever." G.K. Chesterton
14. "Great leadership is about human experiences. It's not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine." Lance Secretan
15. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader

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