Avenues to Leadership

Avenues to Leadership

Leadership Quotes for College Students *

• To be an outstanding leader one must be able to take a back seat without losing control of the steering wheel.
  - O.A. Battista, 1917-1995, Canadian-American chemist and author

• It is better to have a strategy that is 70 percent good and stick with it than one which tries to be 90 percent good but it changes all the time.
  
  
  

       - Bertrand Collomb, Born 1942, French Businessman, Chairman of Lafarge, a company that sells concrete and aggregates

  
  Image source: Économie
  

• Leadership is not a trumpet call to self-importance--
  it is an opportunity to serve.
  
  - Actual author unknown to me. The quote is attributed to Donald Walters [AKA Swami Kriyananda] and Mel Wallace
• True leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is into what it ought to be. It's not something that is done "to" people, it is something that is done "with" people.
  

  
  - Unknown [I've seen the first part of the quote attributed to Virginia Allan]

• A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, "I was beaten"'; he does not say "My men were beaten."
  

  
  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944, French novelist, essayist, aviator Full name, Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery

  
  
  

  
  
  Image source: Wikipedia
  

• You do not lead by hitting people over the head
  - that's assault, not leadership.
  

       - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969, U.S. General, and 34th President of the United States

  
  He graduated in June 1915 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
  Image Source: The Eisenhower Presidential Library - The Army Years
  
• Firm management actually motivates creative thinking.
  

  - Gordon Myers, American IBMexecutive

• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
  
  

       - Ralph LaurenBorn 1939, American fashion designer and business executive

  
  
  Ralph Lauren in his office 1979 by Edgar de Evia
  Image source: Wikipedia
  
  

   

• There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
       - Mary Parker Follet, 1868-1933, American pioneer theorist on management theory

  
  

  
  Image source: Mary Parker Follet by James E Hoops, Babson College
  

• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
  
  

       -Ralph Lauren, Born 1939, American fashion designer and business executive

  
  
  Ralph Lauren in his office 1979 by Edgar de Evia
  Image source: Wikipedia
  
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  The trick is not to get rid of the butterflies, but to get them to fly in formation.

  
  

       - Unknown

  
  

  Image source: Poise - PublicSpeakingTip.org

• The need to be right all the time is the biggest barrier to new ideas.
       - Edward de Bono, Born 1933 in Malta, Physician, author, inventor, and consultant

  
  

   
  Image source: About Dr. de Bono, his personal website

  
  

   

• Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
       - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman

  
  

   
  Water Color Painting on Cotton Canvas
  Image source: Art of Legend India

•        The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests and in so doing will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated be loving concern rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.
       - Eugene B. Habecker, Born 1946, Author, 30th president of Taylor University

•      There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
       - Liu Shao-chi, 1898-1969, Chinese political leader

  
  

  
  
  Image source: Time Magazine Cover, October 12, 1959

• Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
       - Alan Autry,  Born 1952, American actor, politician and pro football player

  
  

  
  
  Image source: The Japan Times Online

• A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
       - Unknown                                                             

  
  

  
  Image source: The Reluctant Tester

  
  

  In the post, Test Leadership, the author states:

  
  

  . . . clichéd but very hard to follow . One of my favorite modes of leadership . Demonstrate to your flock as to how to do things by doing them excellently .

  
  

  Pros : You are the sun of the team and you would create other stars in the team and lift the performance level of the team.

  
  

  Cons : You could overawe , demoralize  or make people green with envy . If implemented without care could be counter productive / lead to under performance . and someone can poison your food one day .

  
  

   

• A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.
       - Leroy Eime, (I did not find any information on him.)

  
  

  
  Image source: Thirty Memerable Leadership Quotes

  
  

   

• Injure no one; on the contrary, help as many as you can.
        - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher

  
  

  
  Image source: Razuri Design, Illustration

  
  
  

   

• More ideas come from information than inspiration.
       - Unknown                                                              
  

  
  

                       
  Image source: Hubpages.com - Green Data Centre Design And Construction 77
                               

  
  

   

  
  

   

• If one plan won't do, then another must.

  
  

       - John A. Roebling, 1806-1869, German Born civil engineer, manufacturer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge

  
  

  
  Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1877
  Image source: Cosmeo

• . . . it's extremely foolish, probably perilous, ever to assume that because people are in positions of responsibility they are therefore behaving responsibly.
       - David G. McCullough, Born 1933, American author, historian

  
  

   
  Image source: Blog post - Leader of the Pack
  

• Stability does not imply unchangeability.
             - Michael Howe, 1940-2002, British cognitive psychologist 

  
  

   

  
  This travel blog photo's source is TravelPod page: Bulls, Monkeys and Dolphins
  

   

• Lead, follow or get out of the way!
       - Unknown                                                                      
  
  

    Landscape with Ducks
  by JAKAB BOGDÁNY
  Oil on canvas
  Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
  Image source: Web Gallery of Art
  

  
  

   

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  Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
       - Niels Bohr, 1885-1962, Danish physicist