Definition Of Leadership Quotes

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

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 its normal limitations.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

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

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

I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks. His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

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

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

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

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.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.