Leadership Quotations

Leadership Quotations
Compiled for you by George Torok

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Be
ard Shaw, "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Be
ard Shaw, Annajanska (1919)

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Be
ard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), to her daughter, Liza Minelli

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Be
ard Shaw

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
Anon.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Warren Bennis

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Sir Winston Churchill

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max De Pree, "Leadership Is an Art" n