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LEADERSHIP | 10/16/2012 @ 8:37AM | 692,469 views
100 Best Quotes On Leadership
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A great quote can provide personal inspiration and can be used to educate others; in my book Employee Engagement 2.0 I open every chapter with an enlightening quotation. Below are my top 100 leadership quotes of all time. (Have a favorite quote that didn’t make my list? Share it out in the comments section below!)
1. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. —Lao Tzu 2. Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18 3. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? —Benjamin Disraeli 4. You manage things; you lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper 5. 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 DePree 6. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis 7. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — General George Patton 8. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch 9. A leader is a dealer in hope. —Napoleon Bonaparte 10. You don’t need a title to be a leader. –Multiple Attributions 11. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. —John Maxwell 12. My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which