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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going
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The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
The well being of the people is the supreme law.
A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Popularity is not leadership.
Richard Marcinko
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Mwai Kibaki
Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.
Bill Owens
France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
Francois Hollande
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi
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.
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.
Reggie White
I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.
Margaret J. Wheatley
People look for their leadership to lead.
Mick Cornett
When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.
Proverb
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.
Jakaya Kikwete