Leadership Templates

Indra Nooyi - Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Chinua Achebe - A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Jack Ma - The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Andy Grove - Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Ken Blanchard - The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

John C. Maxwell - Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Henry Kissinger - A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Ivan Illich - Leadership does not depend on being right.

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

Lao Tzu - When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves’.

Warren Bennis - Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Harvey S. Firestone - The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

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

Bo Bennett - Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Mitt Romney - Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

John D. Rockefeller - Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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

James Cash Penney - Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Golda Meir - A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

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

Henry Miller - The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Warren Bennis - Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Ronald Reagan - When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Arnold H. Glasow - A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Ray Kroc - The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Lao Tzu - 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.

Alexander the Great - 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.

Thomas Aquinas - If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Sam Walton - 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.