10 Remarkable Quotes on Leadership.

These, according to us, are some of the best quotes on leadership, making us ponder on the true meaning of the word “leadership”. Are we missing quotes which have had an influence on your life? Share them with us in the comments below.

1. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” ~ Seth Godin
2. “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~ Colin Powell
3. “You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.” ~ Anita Roddick
4. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity” ~ Reed Markham
5. “I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that’s a big deal. And if you’re going to be a leader – if you’re a leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world – in the room, you’ve got real problems.” ~ Jack Welch
6. “There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.” ~ Klaus Balkenhol
7. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” ~ John F. Kennedy
8. “Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.” ~ John Holt
9. “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
10. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Quit Cynicism.

How do people who have endured setbacks gone ahead to achieve success? You start by quitting cynicism and being inspired. Read about successful people; follow their life story; collect their thoughts, sayings and quotes, and display them at your desk and as your desktop wallpapers. Here are five powerful quotes to start your collection. Add to this and build your own collection.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell, former army general and US Secretary of State

Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. — Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach and entrepreneur

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. — Estée Lauder, Amercan businesswoman and co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies

Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. — Mahatma Gandhi

Quit Cynicism! Be Inspired