Leadership Development Quotes:

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Organization, Impact, Leadership And Service, Leadership Development

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Leadership, Leader, Growing, Innovative Leadership, Workforce

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

- Harvey S. Firestone

topic: Leadership, Helping Others, People, Innovation And Leadership, Leadership And Service

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

- John C. Maxwell

source: "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Young Entrepreneurs, True Leader

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

topic: Leadership, Heart, Organization, Leadership And Management, Leadership By Famous Leaders

In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.

- Robert Kiyosaki

source: FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 17, 2017

topic: Integrity, Team, Order, Leadership Development

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

- Paul Wellstone

topic: Self Esteem, Real, Self Confidence, Staying Power, Leadership Development

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Nobody Cares, Inspirational Coach

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Moving, Demand, Development, Leadership Development

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

topic: Motivational, Leadership, People, True Leader, Funny Leadership

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

- Michael C. Burgess

topic: Integrity, Motherhood, Men, Institute, Leadership Development

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Top Management, True Leader

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Journey, Development, Leadership Development

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

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Graduation, True Leader, Funny Leadership

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, People, Leadership Development

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inspiring Educational, Leadership Development

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

- Ross Perot

topic: Leadership, Business, People, Managing People, True Leader

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

- Sam Walton

source: Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Educational, True Leader, Inspirational Self Esteem

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

- Bill Gates

topic: Business Life, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiring Business, Inspiration To Others, Inspiring Leader

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Lack Of Integrity, Leadership Development

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Leadership, Jobs, Business, Leadership Development, Leadership Style

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

source: Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Reality, Funny Leadership, Workforce

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, True Leader, Funny Leadership

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Leadership, Insperational, Helping Others, Leadership And Service, Leadership Development

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

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Top Management, Funny Leadership

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

- Henry Miller

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Business, Lead Characters, Leadership Courage

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Leadership, Difficult, Command, Inspiring Leader, Leaders Motivational

Leaders are not born, they're made.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Leadership, Discipline, Effort, True Leader, Sports Leadership

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

- D. Wayne Calloway

topic: Leader, Coaching, Battle, Leadership Development

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

topic: Leadership, Leader, Leadership And Management, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership Development

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

- Tom Peters

topic: Leadership, Vision, Management, Leadership And Management, Leadership By Famous Leaders

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Leadership, Ill, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership Development

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Leadership, Average, People, Top Management, Managing People

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Hope, Innovation And Leadership, Leadership Development

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake, Leadership Development

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 Shaoqi

topic: Leadership, Past, Elephants, Leadership Development

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Leadership, Organization, Able, Leadership And Change, Leadership Development

The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.

- Aubrey Malphurs

source: Aubrey Malphurs (2006). “Maximizing Your Effectiveness: How to Discover and Develop Your Divine Design”, p.221, Baker Books

topic: Unique, Asking Questions, Leader, Leadership Development

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Journey, Thinking, Careers, Leadership Development, Career Path

Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.

- James McNerney

topic: People, Development, Growing, Leadership Development

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

- Marshall Goldsmith

topic: Leader, Development, Great Leader, Leadership Development

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

- Andy Stanley

source: Twitter post from Jun 10, 2014

topic: Leader, Development, Strategy, Leadership Development, Caliber