Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

John Maxwell

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Warren Bennis

The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

John C. Maxwell

Als de ladder tegen de verkeerde muur staat, brengt elke stap ons alleen maar dichter bij de verkeerde bestemming.

Stephen Covey

De leider is degene die in de hoogste boom klimt, de hele situatie overziet en roept:"Verkeerde jungle!"  Maar wat wordt vaak teruggeroepen door de managers en de mensen die druk bezig zijn met de productie: "Mond houden! Het gaat uitstekend!"
Effectiviteit – zelfs bij vragen van leven en dood – is niet afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid energie die we investeren, maar van de vraag of we dat doen in de goede jungle.

Stephen Covey

I don't think I have had a career. I think I have had a chance to serve my people. I was never charmed by ruling anybody, but I was always attracted by serving the people. (...) So I would not describe it as a career. I would describe it as a commitment. And I have found that serving is more meaningful than ruling.

Shimon Peres

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absense.

Sheryl Sandberg

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

Warren Bennis

If you can correct yourself, what problem would leadership be for you? If you cannot correct yourself, however, what can you do about correcting others?

Confucius

De wijze leider ziet de dingen aankomen voordat ze gebeuren. Een boom die stijf en onbuigzaam wordt, begint als een buigzaam takje. Een groot bouwwerk begint met een schep aarde. Een reis van duizenden kilometers begint met één enkele stap.

Lao Tse

Goed leiderschap is minder doen en meer zijn.

Lao Tse

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world.

Nelson Mandela

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

Management is a position that is granted; leadership is a status that is earned.

K. Scott Derrick

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in the leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

Jack Welch

Innovation comes form the producer - not from the customer.

W.E. Deming

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled "subordinates",then you know nothing of leadership.You know only tyranny.

Dee Hock

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Brian Tracy

Leadership is not just what happens when you're there, it's what happens when you're not there.

Ken Blanchard

A leader leads by example not by force.

Sun Tzu

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

People are more easily led than driven.

David Harold Fink

The difference between a leader and a boss? The leader works in the open, the boss in covert. The leader leads, the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.

Ross Perot

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.

Steve Jobs

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Seth Godin

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

Bill Hybels

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Ken Kesey

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.

Tim Harford

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight Eisenhower

If I look at the masses, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

Mother Theresa

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Benjamin Franklin

Send a boy where he wants to go and you'll see his best pace.

Nigerian Proverb

I pointed out to you the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger.

African Proverb  

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The first problem with all of the stuff that's out there on leadership is that we haven't got a clue what we're talking about. We typically think of the leader as being the person at the top. But if you define a leader as an executive, then you absolutely deny everyone else in an organization the opportunity to be a leader.

Peter Senge

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.

Jack Welch

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Walter Wriston