Yarnell, Mark

"Leadership is someone who demonstrates what's possible."

Van Valkenburg, George

"Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching."

Adams, Scott

"Leadership is an intangible quality with no clear definition. That's probably a good thing, because if the people who were being led knew the definition,...

Stevenson, Robert Louis

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others."

Firestone, Harvey S.

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."

Stogdill, Ralph

"There are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept."

Anderson, Harald

"A good leader is a caring leader -- he not only cares about his people, he actively takes care of them."

Cohen, W.A.

"Leadership is the art of influencing others to their maximum performance to accomplish any task, objective or project."

Glasow, Arnold

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

Smith, Fred

"Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated."

Vance, Mike

"Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long-term constructive goals, in a...

Powell, Colin

"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...

Covey, Stephen

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

Gergen, David R.

"A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there."

Schwarzkopf, Norman

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

Peters, Tom

"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."

Greenleaf, Robert

"Leadership is about service to others and a commitment to developing more servants as leaders. It involves co-creation of a commitment to a mission."

Kissinger, Henry

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

Adams, Scott

"A leader has to be somebody who's getting people to do things which don't seem to make sense to them or are not in their...

Casullo, David

Leadership is the collective action of everyone you influence. Your behavior--your actions and your words--determines how you influence. Our job as leaders is to...

Truman, Harry S.

"My definition of a leader... is a man who can persuade people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're too...

Gardner, John W.

"Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which an individual (or leadership team) induces a group to pursue objectives held by the leader...

Maxwell, John C.

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

Landry, Tom

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."

Walters, J. Donald

"Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance."

Drucker, Peter

"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond...

Rohn, Jim

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not...

Adams, John Quincy

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

Eisenhower, Dwight

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

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