Leaders aren't born, nor are they made over night. If you study the great leaders - you can establish the Do's and Don'ts for becoming a leader. We have invited Gennady Barsky to curate the best quotes on What makes a Leader. Hopefully this will provide great inspiration for those who want to be leaders of people.
What constitutes a great leader – here are some quotes on the issue:
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“Leadership
is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis
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“Leadership is a
potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one,
be without the strategy.” Norman Schwarzkopf
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“Leaders do not
proclaim themselves as leaders – they simply are that.” Jonah Engler
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“Leadership is
lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance
to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal
limitations.” Peter Drucker
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“I start with the
premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers.” Ralph Nader
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“The key to
successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Kenneth Blanchard
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“Leadership is
the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants
to do it.” General Dwight Eisenhower
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“Education is
the mother of leadership.” Wendell Willkie
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“Leadership and
learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy
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“Leadership does
not always wear the harness of compromise.” Woodrow Wilson
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“To have long
term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed
in some way.” Pat Riley
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“True leadership
lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at
their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.” Bill
Owens
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“Leadership is
not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing
another.” John C. Maxwell
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“The art of
leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” Tony Blair
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“Leaders simply
go out and make it happen.” Gennady
Barsky
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“The
challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be
bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant;
have humor, but without folly.” Jim Rohn
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“Effective
leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline,
carrying it out.” Stephen Covey
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“The task of
leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the
greatness is already there.” John Buchan
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“Leadership is
intentional influence.” Michael McKinney
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“Leadership is
the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people
are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a
participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.”
Mike Vance
· “The very essence
of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain
trumpet.” Father Theodore M. Hesburgh
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