Engraving Quotes About Leadership and Leaders
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Management Quotes; Sayings About Leaders, Leadership"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."--Peter F. Drucker "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." --George S. Patton "A leader is a dealer in hope." --Napoleon Bonaparte "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune." -- Author Unknown "The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." -- Author Unknown "The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." --Elaine Agather "Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too." --Robert Half "Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women." --Groucho Marx "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. --Theodore M. Hesburgh "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." --James Crook "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." --The Bible "Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." --Dwight D. Eisenhower "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves." --Lao-Tzu "What you cannot enforce, do not command." --Sophocles "People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." --H. Ross Perot "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." --St. Augustine "Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." --Lewis Grizzard "It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there." --Franklin D. Roosevelt "The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor." --Henry Ford "Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says 'Go!' - a leader says 'Let's go!'" -- E.M. Kelly "Leadership is action, not position." -- Donald H. McGannon "You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself." -- Gene Mauch "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." -- Albert Schweitzer "You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower "Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders." -- Tom Peters "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." -- Thomas J. Watson "A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit." -- John C. Maxwell "Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present." -- Rudy Giuliani "A leader leads by example not by Force." -- Sun Tzu "A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him." -- Mark Brouwer "The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way." -- Henry Miller "One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you." -- Dennis Peer "Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow." -- Vince Lombardi "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." -- Tony Blair "Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower "A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'" -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them." -- Robert Jarvik "If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep." -- Charles Maurice "A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done." -- Ralph Nader "Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships." -- Charles Simic |





















