Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.  —Peter Drucker

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

—Warren G. Bennis

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

—Kenneth Blanchard

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

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.        —Golda Meir

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.    —John W. Gardner

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

—General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.     —Tom Landry

The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.       —James Crook

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.       —Thomas J. Watson

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.                                                           —Peter Drucker

You manage things; you lead people.                                                      

                                                   —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper