“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
~John F Kennedy

“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”
~Eric Hoffer

To lead people, walk beside them…
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate…
When the best leader’s work is done the people say,
“We did it ourselves!”
~Lao-tsu

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on… The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.”
~Walter Lippmann

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
~Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership quote from Theodore Roosevelt:
“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.”

 In order to elicit the best from each person you deal with learn when to get involved with what they are doing and, very importantly, learn when to stay clear and let them do their best for the group, organization, and their own selves.

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