Leadership Quotes

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

"As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."

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

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."

"To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership - not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere."

"To lead the people, walk behind them."

"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

"Every silver lining has a cloud."

"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

"The cautious seldom err."

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

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