Groucho Marx Quotes

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

You can only lead if the people that you're leading want to be led.

Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.