The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh 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 Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~ Peter F. Drucker The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. ~Robert K. Greenleaf Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. ~Unknown Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. ~Peter F. Drucker An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general. ~Chinese proverb Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. ~Unkown Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice. ~Max DePree Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ~John F. Kennedy No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. ~Edgar Powell The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. ~Walter Lippmann Great necessities call forth great leaders. ~Abigail Adams Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey. ~Charles S. Lauer The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. ~Max DePree (The Art of Leadership) The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is do those served grow as persons: do they while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society, will they benefit, or, at least, not be further deprived? ~Robert K. Greenleaf The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ~Harvey S. Firestone