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.
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Kim Dae Jung showed[,] that true leadership lies in compassion, not [in] coercion.
There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.
The king's name is a tower of strength,
Which they upon the adverse party want.
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too
When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.