The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson
Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
Larry Bird
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
Louis Farrakhan
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
Louis Farrakhan
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom Landry
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Tom Landry
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Rush Limbaugh
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Pat Riley
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Abdul Kalam
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Gloria Steinem
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Bertolt Brecht
