Leadership Quotes for Managers and Executives

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

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

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Earn your leadership every day.

To lead people, walk beside them.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

You manage things; you lead people.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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