“The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.”
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“The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”
“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.”
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
“Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.”
“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.”
“Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.”
“I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.”
“Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.”
“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.”
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.”
“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”
“Character matters leadership descends from character.”
“In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.”
“The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.”
“Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.”
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
“Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.”
“There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.”