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Quotations : LEADERSHIP

"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!'"
- Lao-tsu

"A good leader is someone who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit."
- Unknown

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

"Lead: to show the way by going in advance; conduct; escort; direct. Manage: to exert control over; make submissive to one’s authority, discipline or persuasion."
- American Heritage Dictionary

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
- Jesse Jackson

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

"The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone."
- William J.H. Boetcker

"You manage things; you lead people."
- Grace Murray Cooper

"A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do."
- Anthony T. Dadovano

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
- Charles Maurice de Tellyrand-Perigord

"Leadership is not by itself good or desirable. Leadership is a means. Leadership to what end is thus the crucial question "
- Peter Drucker

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
- Stephen R. Covey

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

"If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."
- G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott

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

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
- Peter Drucker

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already."
- John Buchan

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head that's assault, not leadership."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."
- Sam Rayburn

"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated."
- Dag Hammarskjöld

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on."
- Walter Lippmann

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"
- Lao-Tse

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."
- Ken Kesey

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