Leadership is…

… practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

– Harold S. Geneen

You have to…

… look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organisation.

– Anita Roddick

In times of…

…. change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

– Eric Hoffer

We live in…

… a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

– Marco Rubio

The secret of…

…a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

– Gail Sheehy

The secret of…

… leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

– Seth Godin

The led…

… must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
– Albert Einstein

The only way…

… to do great work is to love the work you do.

– Steve Jobs

The single biggest…

… way to impact an organisation is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organisation that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

– John C Maxwell

Leaders are not…

… as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.

– John Holt