Famous Quotes

"Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership."

Eric Hoffer on Leadership

More quotes about Leadership

• "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

  Henry Ford on Leadership

• "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership

• "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

  Nelson Mandela on Leadership

• "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

  Lao Tzu on Leadership

• "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 on Leadership

More quotes by Eric Hoffer

• "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

• "Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

• "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."

• "The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

• "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."