Quotes About Leadership
I like the definition of leadership by Alan Keith, listed at Wikipedia. It says that leadership is "ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen." This seems to be the essence of the concept. Leadership is a personal trait, the ability to create a way for people and also willingness within them to follow you.
Good leaders are usually made and not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. See for yourself what others said and wrote about leadership through quotes and sayings below.
QUOTES ABOUT LEADERSHIP:
"There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey." William Edward Forster
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Peter Drucker
"He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader." Aristotle
"Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions." Fernanda Bartolme
"It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them." Tiberius Caesar
"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader." Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such." Andre Maurois
"When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table." Hubert Horatio Humphrey
"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers." Dee Hock