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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they
eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability – Fred A. Manske, Jr
2. Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire
others to follow – Vince Lombardi
3. I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a
sheep – Talleyrand
4. Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they
want to achieve.. – Tom Landry
5. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In
between, the leader is a servant – Max DuPree
6. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with
their ingenuity – George S. Patton
7. If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when
those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after
– Napoleon Hill
8. Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little. When his
work is done, his aims fulfilled. They will all say,”We did this ourselves.” – Lao Tzu
9. Treat a person as they are, and they will remain as they are. Treat a person as they can
and should be, and they will become as they can and should be
10. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd – James Crook
11. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander – Aristotle
12. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality – Warren G. Bennis
13. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they
don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be – Rosalynn Carter
14. The pessimists complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader
adjusts the sails – John Maxwell
15. It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the
credit – Sandra Swinney
16. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by
results not attributes – Peter Drucker
17. We can practice leadership principles, but the only way to learn them is to lead. Not
knowing it all is no excuse not to start – Judy Columb
18. There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man
who makes every man feel great – Gilbert K. Chesterton
19. If you stop learning today, you stop leading tomorrow – Howard Hendricks
20. Leadership; the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants – Dwight Eisenhower
21. A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes
A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes
it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group
– Russel H. Ewing
22. If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are
what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that – Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
23. A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right
things to do – Anthony T. Dadovano
24. Always require people to teach what you expect them to learn – Steven Covey
25. If we don’t model what we teach, we are teaching something else
26. ...the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers..-Ralph Nader
27. Talkers are no good doers – William Shakespeare
28. The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has
around him – Niccolo Machiavelli
29. When one teaches, two learn – Robert Half
30. To know how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor; to be available to tell others is
the accomplishment of the teacher; to inspire others to do better work is the
 accomplishment of management; to be able to do all three is the accomplishment of true
leaders. – Guy Ferguson
31. You can judge a leader by the size of problems he tackles – people nearly always pick a
problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones –
Anthony Jay
32. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones – Ralph
Waldo Emerson
33. We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now – Martin Luther
King
34. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves – Ray Kroc