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  • An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.

    Jobs   Winning   Men  
  • Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  • Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.

    Men   Leader   Good Man  
  • The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

  • Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  • 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.

  • The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

    Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated
  • You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

    Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.
  • The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

    "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.
  • A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

    "Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization". Book by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, December 13, 2005.
  • No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

    Leadership   Witty   Men  
  • Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

    Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”
  • Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

    Baby   Children   War  
  • Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  • Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

    "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.
  • I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.

    Hate   Ideas   Leader  
    "Here’s Why I Never Warmed Up to Bernie Sanders" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 29, 2016.
  • Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

  • Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on
  • Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  • I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

    As quoted in "The Christian Science Monitor", December 20, 1984.
  • A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  • The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

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

    "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.
  • The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

    Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons
  • Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

    Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books
  • If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  • Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

    Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas
  • Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

    "Unlocking Your Potential: The Keys to Discovering Your Hidden Treasure". Book by Wade D. Sadlier, 2011.
  • In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

    Badass   Leader   Female  
    Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.182, Knopf
  • Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

    Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”
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