Leadership Skills

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller

Fireproof: The boss's relatives. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Wiping out is an underappreciated skill. - Laird Hamilton

Strong people don't need strong leaders. - Ella Baker

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident. - Dale Carnegie

Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself. - Rita Mae Brown

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

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. - John C Maxwell

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

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. - Tom Peters

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

Perspective: Having customers who love you and a boss who hates you - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses. - John C Maxwell

To err is human. To blame it on somebody else shows management potential. - Unknown

Only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. - Albert Einstein

If you want to make everyone happy, don't be a leader. Sell ice cream. - Steve Jobs

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. - Unknown

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. - Joe DiMaggio

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

The common traits among all successful people are desire, determination and confidence. - Joe Segal

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. - W.A. Nance

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. - John Zenger

Many of us are at the 'metallic' age - gold in our teeth, silver in our hair, and lead in our pants. - Unknown

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. - H L Mencken

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says 'Go!' ... a leader says 'Let's go!'. - E M Kelly

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

A boss on vacation is the most cost effective measure. Everybody in the office has a vacation at the cost of one. - Thibaut

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. - Scott Adams

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. - John Buchan

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Confidence is beautiful, no matter your size, no matter your weight. Be confident in who you are and you'll be beautiful. - Unknown

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. - Horace

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. - Harold S Geneen

If you don't have confidence in yourself, get off your rear end and do anything that will make you feel better about yourself. - Wayne Dyer

Silence is interesting. It can show confusion, indifference and sadness. But it can also show determination, confidence and caring. - Maxime Lagace

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

Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so that they may better discover the bent of their minds. - Plato

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. - Mary F Berry