Mao Zedong - The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Norman Schwarzkopf - Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Jack Ma - The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
Theodore Roosevelt - People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Mitt Romney - Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Henry Miller - The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Thomas Aquinas - If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
George W. Bush - Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
Kyrie Irving - One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
James Buchanan - The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Chinua Achebe - A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Ivan Illich - Leadership does not depend on being right.
Henry Kissinger - The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Ray Kroc - The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ralph Nader - The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
John Buchan - The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Andy Grove - Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Lao Tzu - When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves’.
John D. Rockefeller - Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Warren Bennis - Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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.
Bill Owens - 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.
Simon Sinek - Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
Harold S. Geneen - Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Warren Bennis - Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Tony Blair - The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Ronald Reagan - When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Steve Jobs - Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Theodore Hesburgh - The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Tom Landry - Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Henry Kissinger - A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Harvey S. Firestone - The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
James Cash Penney - Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
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.
John F. Kennedy - Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Seth Berkley - Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
Ferdinand Marcos - Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
John C. Maxwell - Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Bo Bennett - Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Harold S. Geneen - Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Mwai Kibaki - Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
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.
Ken Blanchard - The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Mahatma Gandhi - I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Golda Meir - A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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.
Andrew Carnegie - No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
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