Closing Time

Some leaders are born women. - Unknown

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller

Call others into leadership with you. - Jacobia Solomon

Leadership is an ever-evolving position. - Mike Krzyzewski

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business. - Salman Rushdie

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F Kennedy

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. - Charles de Gaulle

Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing. - Thomas Fuller

A boss commands, but a leader will always bring a team together. - Unknown

Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people. - Kathy Austin

I am not yet ready to be czar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. - Nicholas II

There is no such thing as 'business ethics'... it's all ethics! - John C Maxwell

Leaders don't set out to climb the ladder. They rise by lifting others up. - Jo Miller

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. - Omar N. Bradley

The number one disease of business leaders in North America is procrastination. - Napoleon Hill

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. - Pete Hoekstra

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. - Bo Derek

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves. - Maltbie D. Matlock

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

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people. - Paulo Freire

Leaders become great not because of their power but because of their ability to empower others. - John Maxwell

Good leaders develop ideas. Great leaders develop people. The best leaders develop new leaders. - Bobby Umar

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. - Sam Rayburn

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

Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others. - Barry Libert

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers

If people like you, they'll listen to you. But if they trust you, they'll do business with you. - Zig Ziglar

Americans still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do. - Barack Obama

The leader's job is to see the best in human beings who have never caught sight of the best within themselves. - Robin Sharma

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. - Oscar Wilde

Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing. Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly, and Sharing the success with all. - Sujit Lalwani

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business. - Mark Cuban

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. - Jack Welch

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. - Mary Parker Follett

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. - Rosalyn Carter

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey

Great leaders don't set out to be a leader. They set out to make a difference. It's never about the role - always about the goal. - Lisa Haisha

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. - Ronald Reagan