Funny Quotes about Leadership
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
— Dwight Eisenhower
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
— Boris Yeltsin
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
— Sophocles
"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."
—Stephen R. Covey
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Theodore M. Hesburgh
The question Who ought to be boss is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
— Henry Ford
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
— Elaine Agather
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
— Dwight Eisenhower
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