Leading By Example

Leadership is action, not position. - Samuel Gompers

Behind leadership there is always a person. - Unknown

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. - Kin Hubbard

Management is nothing more than motivating people. - Lee Iacocca

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. - Fletcher Knebel

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk. - Donald Trump

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson

You can't create greater followers under poor leadership. - Unknown

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. - Leo Rosten

The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis. - Brian Tracy

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example. - John Wooden

The best time management strategy: don't find the time, find the why. - Chris Guillebeau

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive, it's leadership. - Ralph Marston

The best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. - Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. - Brian Tracy

Leadership is at its best making promises to the people... and then keeping them. - Unknown

You do not lead by hitting people over the head; that is assault, not leadership. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Leadership is all about influence - the first person you need to influence is you. - John C Maxwell

You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John Rockefeller

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word. - Brian Tracy

Leadership is all about influence and everything rises and falls on leadership... everything. - John C Maxwell

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best. - Unknown

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

Leaders come in two flavors: expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. - Barbara Corcoran

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. - James Beard

The best leaders identify what promises they are being held to, manage expectations, and honor those promises. - Bob Anderson

Basketball develops individuality, initiative, and leadership. Now get out there and do exactly what I tell you to. - Dick Vitale

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked. Leadership is defined by results, not attributes. - Unknown

Leadership is about creating powerful human currents moving enthusiastically and creatively in the right direction. - Unknown

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us. - Sukant Ratnakar

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. - Bryan Adams

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi

There's only one thing worse than training your staff and having them leave, and that's not training them and having them stay. - Zig Ziglar

Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama