Leadership

Here are some quotations on leadership:

Leaders are like eagles; they don't flock, you find them one at a time. --Unknown

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. --Eric Hoffer

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. --Marian Anderson

People are more easily led than driven. --David Harold Fink

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. --Harold Geneen

Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently. --John G. Vance

The only real training for leadership is leadership. --Anthony Jay

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. --George Van Valkenburg

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. --Rosalynn Carter

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. --Walter J. Lippmann

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. --Ralph Nader