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Best Leadership Quotes
1. "Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work." -Seth Godin
2. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” – Charles S. Lauer
3."A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." —John Maxwell
4."Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know."- Roy T. Bennett
5."He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."—Aristotle
6. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley
7.“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
8."Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance." - J. Donald Walters
9."A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate, we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before." - Nelson Mandela
10."If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself." - Jim Rohn
11. “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.“ —Peter Drucker
12. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.“ —Tony Blair
13. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.“ —Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
14. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.“ —Kenneth Blanchard
15. “A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.“ —Polybius
16.“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, former Dallas Cowboys coach
17. “Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words."
- Roy T. Bennett
18."Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
-Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder
19.“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, former U.S. President
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