Ralph Nader Quotes

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

A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

As far as my leadership style is concerned what makes me happiest is fulfilling my potential and helping others realize theirs. If you have really done that then the rest of it is actually very simple.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with - people who are probably going to do great things anyway - and I just teach them what I know, maybe teach them how to think a little clearer than they did before, and then off they go.

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

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

There are two types of directors: the directors who take and directors who give.

Many times, my role was to work as a link between the coaches and the players; it was to be a leader. That was something natural for me.

We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

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

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

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

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