Leadership Quotes

Know thyself

Plato 428 BC-347 BC, ancient Greek philosopher

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much

Donald Rumsfeld 1932-, American Republican politician and businessman

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things

Peter F. Drucker 1909-2005, American management guru

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm

Publilius Syrus 1st century BC, Latin writer of maxims

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 1908-2006, influential Canadian-American Keynesian economist

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress

Mahatma Gandhi 1869, 1948, Indian deep thinker and constant experimenter

A leader is best when people barely know he exists

Lao Tzu 4th century BC, ancient Chinese philosopher

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them

Stephen Covey, American leadership consultant and writer

Treating people with respect will gain one wide acceptance and improve the business

Tao Zhu Gong 500BC, Assistant to the Emperor of Yue, 2nd Business Principle

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

Paul Keating 1944-, Australian statesman and Prime Minister in Time, January 9th, 1995

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind

Lucius Annaeus Seneca 5BC-65AD, Roman tragedian, philosopher, and counselor to Nero

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult

Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German philosopher

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, sixteenth American president

A leader is a dealer in hope

Napoléon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General and Emperor

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