Leadership Quotes
“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.”
“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.”
-- Marian Anderson
“In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.”
-- Bill Kristol
“It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.”
-- Ruth J. Simmons
“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
-- Henry A. Kissinger