How A Leader Leads

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. - Thomas Paine

Call others into leadership with you. - Jacobia Solomon

When you're riding lead, don't spit. - Unknown

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. - Mary O'Hare Dumas

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. - Edward Appleton

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

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. - Prince

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

Flatterers looks like friends, as wolves like dogs. - George Chapman

Sometimes the wrong choices lead us to the right places. - Unknown

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake. - Larry Hagman

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves. - Unknown

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Dr. Samuel Johnson

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. - Kenneth H Blanchard

I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that. - Groucho Marx

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

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into matrimony. - George Farquhar

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

When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills. - Archie Bunker

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. - Michelle Obama

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. - Chris Evert

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. - Unknown

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. - Cicero

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment. - Harvey Mackay

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes. - Harvey Mackay

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. - Gail Carson Levine

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

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. - Martin H. Fischer