1. Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

- Walt Disney

2. An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

- Jack Welch

3. You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

- Henry Ford

4. I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

- Muhammad Yunus

5. You manage things; you lead people.

- Grace Murray Hopper

6. The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

- Carlos Ghosn

7. Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.

- Unknown

8. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.

- Peter F. Drucker

9. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

- John Maxwell

10. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

11. Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.

- Dave Weinbaum

12. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

- Publilius Syrus

13. The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

14. The highest of distinctions is service to others.

- King George VI

15. Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

- Seth Godin

16. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

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

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Ray Kroc

19. Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

- Mike Krzyzewski

20. Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

21. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

22. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

- Margaret Fuller

23. Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

- Mike Krzyzewski

24. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

- Thomas Jefferson

25. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

- David Star Jordan

26. The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something spec

- Bill Taylor

27. To add value to others, one must first value others.

- John Maxwell

28. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Arnold Glasow

30. 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.

- Peter F. Drucker

31. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

- Theodore Roosevelt

32. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter F. Drucker

33. Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.

- Sam Walton

34. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

35. 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.

- Nelson Mandela

36. Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

37. The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become.

- DeSeaux

38. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

- Pat Riley

39. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

- Jack Welch

40. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.

- Brian Tracy

41. Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Stephen Covey

43. You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

- Jeanette Rankin

44. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

- John Buchan

45. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

46. 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

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

- Bill Gates

48. When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Harvey S. Firestone

50. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

51. I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

- Ben Carson

52. Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time in leading yourself–your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20 percent leading those with authority over you and 15 percent leading your peers.

- Dee Hock

53. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

- Vince Lombardi

54. If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

- Dolly Parton

55. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

56. I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

- Alexander the Great

57. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.

- Indra Nooyi

59. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

- James Humes

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

- Ralph Nader

61. A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

- Jim Rohn

62. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

- Douglas MacArthur

63. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

64. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

- Indira Gandhi

65. A leader is a dealer in hope.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

66. A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.

- Joel Barker

67. Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

- Margaret Thatcher

68. I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.

- Edward Rickenbacker

69. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Harold Geneen

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

- John Quincy Adams

72. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

- Warren G. Bennis

73. There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho’ other ways very desirable.

- William Penn

74. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

75. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

76. Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

- Diogenes of Sinope

77. Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.

- Warren Bennis

78. True leadership lies in guiding others to success – in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

- Bill Owens

79. There are no office hours for leaders.

- Cardinal J. Gibbons

80. One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.

- Ginni Rometty

81. A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.

- M.D. Arnold

82. True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed… Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

- Sheryl Sandberg

83. What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

- Stephen Covey

84. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

- Andrew Carnegie

85. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.

- Bill Bradley

86. 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.

- Rosalynn Carter

87. If ‘leadership’ has come to be known as something much bigger than us, aligned to changing the world, then we are spending way too much time celebrating things that hardly anyone can do and not celebrating things we can do every day.

- Drew Dudley

88. A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.

- Leroy Eimes

89. If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you.

- Tom Brady

90. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

91. The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.

- Margaret Wheatley

92. Leadership is an action, not a position.

- Donald McGannon

93. Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

94. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

- J.K. Rowling

95. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

96. Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

- George S. Patton Jr.

97. 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.

- Tom Landry

98. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

- Mahatma Gandhi

99. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

- Warren Buffett

100. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.

- Herbert Swope

101. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

102. Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.

- Max Depree

103. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

104. It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

- Bill Gates

105. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

- Brian Tracy

106. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston Churchill

107. Leadership is something you earn, something you’re chosen for. You can’t come in yelling, ‘I’m your leader!’ If it happens, it’s because the other guys respect you.

- Ben Roethlisberger

108. To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence … When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’

- Lao Tzu

109. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

- Amelia Earhart

110. The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

- John Maxwell

111. A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

- Robert Townsend

112. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

113. Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.

- Henry Gilmer

114. If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.

- Robert F. Majer

115. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

- Dianne Feinstein

116. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

117. Earn your leadership every day.

- Michael Jordan

118. 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.

- Ronald Reagan

119. When people talk, listen completely.

- Ernest Hemingway

120. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

- Sam Rayburn

121. There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

- Charles F. Kettering

122. Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

- Rosa Parks

123. Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?

- Margaret Thatcher

124. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

- Woodrow Wilson

125. The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

- Tony Blair

126. The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

- John Maxwell