Leadership Quotes
A small page, and a mixed one. It is split between novelists and management writers, so you will find Henry Miller and Tom DeMarco on the same list. Miller, in The Wisdom of the Heart (1941): “The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.” DeMarco, in Peopleware (1987): “The manager’s function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.”
Thomas J. Watson, in 1939, put it in terms of discipline: nothing proves a man’s ability to lead others as much as what he does from day to day to lead himself. The line about leadership being a mix of strategy and character, credited to General Norman Schwarzkopf, is marked disputed.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world.
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.