Leaders And Leadership

(507 votes)   If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(358 votes)   What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(326 votes)   A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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(316 votes)   A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

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(303 votes)   The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

Elaine Agather

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(298 votes)   If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Rabbi Ben Azai
Israeli Rabbi

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(294 votes)   Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Norman Allen

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(286 votes)   A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says I was beaten, he does not say My men were beaten.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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(279 votes)   Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(270 votes)   The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

John Adair
British Speaker

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(262 votes)   A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Ken Adelman
American Journalist

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(262 votes)   When the best leader's work is done the people say, ''We did it ourselves.''

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(230 votes)   The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Fnhrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(227 votes)   I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(216 votes)   We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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