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The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
Sep 29, 2025
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.
The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
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 is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Earn your leadership every day.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
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.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
To lead people, walk behind them.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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 lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
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.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
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.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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.