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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
Oct 1, 2025
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.