Leadership Words of Wisdom To Help Shape Your 2019 Leadership Mindset
A new year. Another 365 opportunities to be a great leader.
With that in mind, I thought I would share with you 19 quotes on leadership to get you started into your 2019 leadership mindset. These have been selected from my book Great Leadership Words of Wisdom, which has over 1000 quotes on great leadership from global business leaders, statesmen, athletes, coaches, sages, and philosophers.
Here are 19 quotes on leadership for 2019: 
You manage things. You lead people.
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Managers do things right. Leaders do the right things.
Peter Drucker
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren Bennis
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
Sheryl Sandberg
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.
Brené Brown
Earn your leadership every day.
Michael Jordan
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people, motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
Colin Powell
Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole.
Tracy Streckenbach
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
On good teams, coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable.
Joe Dumars
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John Maxwell
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader success is all about growing others.
Jack Welch
You cannot create long-term value for the shareholder unless you create long-term value for the employees and the communities you serve.
Howard Schultz
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Laura Schlessinger
And, as a bonus here’s one of my own personal favorites:
Leaders who do not listen will eventually be surrounded by people unwilling to speak and contribute.
Steven Howard
Please feel free to share your own favorite leadership quotes in the comments section below.
Best wishes for continued success in 2019 and beyond.
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