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

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
Author: Dennis A. Peer

Love and respect do not automatically accompany a position of leadership. They must be earned.
Author: Anonymous

Leadership is action, not position.
Author: Donald McGannon

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!"
Author: E.M. Kelly

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt

The final test of a leader is that he [she] leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on.
Author: Walter Lippman

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. . . The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Author: Walter Lippmann

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Author: Ralph Nadar

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
Author: Liu Shao-ch'i

This is pre-eminently the leadership quality--the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose. Men with this ability create a group power rather than express a personal power.
Author: Mary Parker Follett

To lead the people, walk behind them.
Author: Lao-Tzu

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
Author: Gene Mauch

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

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