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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
General Colin Powell

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

All Leadership is influence.
John C. Maxwell

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.
Dee Hock

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan

He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte