1. You have to think anyway, so why not think big? - Donald Trump
2. Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver
3. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie
4. 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. - Lao Tzu
5. Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. - Theodore Roosevelt
6. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs
7. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell
8. I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. - Alexander the Great
9. The cautious seldom err. - Confucius
10. Don't find fault, find a remedy. - Henry Ford
11. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. - Peter Drucker
12. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. - Jim Rohn
13. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. - Stephen Covey
14. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. - Colin Powell
15. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. - George W. Bush
16. A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. - Arnold H. Glasow
17. Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. - Chris Hadfield
18. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
19. When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' - Lao Tzu
20. Be the chief but never the lord. - Lao Tzu
21. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt
22. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Mahatma Gandhi
23. When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. - Ronald Reagan
24. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy
25. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs
26. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. - Nelson Mandela
27. He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. - Sun Tzu
28. A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte
29. A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. - Napoleon Bonaparte
30. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford
31. Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. - Jean-Paul Sartre
32. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. - John C. Maxwell
33. Leadership is influence. - John C. Maxwell
34. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. - John C. Maxwell
35. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker
36. Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. - Peter Drucker
37. Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. - Jim Rohn
38. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
39. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. - Thomas Sowell
40. If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas
41. If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. - William James
42. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. - William James
43. Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer
44. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John D. Rockefeller
45. High expectations are the key to everything. - Sam Walton
46. 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
47. The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie
48. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. - Davy Crockett
49. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. - Michel de Montaigne
50. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher
51. When placed in command, take charge. - Norman Schwarzkopf
52. I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. - R. Buckminster Fuller
53. In fair weather prepare for foul. - Thomas Fuller
54. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. - Thomas Fuller
55. Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. - W. Clement Stone
56. No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. - W. Clement Stone
57. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. - Jesse Jackson
58. 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. - Deepak Chopra
59. Leaders grasp nettles. - David Ogilvy
60. The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. - Mary Kay Ash
61. If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. - Tom Peters
62. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters
63. A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. - Golda Meir
64. My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. - Duke Ellington
65. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. - Casey Stengel
66. The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. - J. Paul Getty
67. The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller
68. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. - Larry Bird
69. I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. - Newt Gingrich
70. The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. - Vaclav Havel
71. If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad. - Chesty Puller
72. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry Kissinger
73. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. - Henry Kissinger
74. A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. - Henry Kissinger
75. The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. - Charles de Gaulle
76. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. - Warren Bennis
77. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren Bennis
78. You're only as good as the people you hire. - Ray Kroc
79. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc
80. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado
81. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. - Bernard Baruch
82. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller
83. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. - Laurence J. Peter
84. Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. - Andy Grove
85. Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. - James Cash Penney
86. Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. - Thomas Szasz
87. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. - Mitt Romney
88. Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. - Bo Bennett
89. Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best. - Chester W. Nimitz
90. What helps people, helps business. - Leo Burnett
91. A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. - J. P. Morgan
92. Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. - J. P. Morgan
93. Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days. - Marco Rubio
94. I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them. - Vladimir Horowitz
95. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair
96. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. - Paul Hawken
97. I don't know any other way to lead but by example. - Don Shula
98. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
99. How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. - David Joseph Schwartz
100. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. - David Joseph Schwartz
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