Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

I think it's very important, I think for any leader as you go through a career you have to learn the leadership lessons.

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

If we had leaders that knew what they were doing, which we don't.

Leadership is what you need to learn next

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

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

Earn your leadership every day.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower.

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

The shortest distance to leadership is service.

You don't become an effective leader by default.

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Leaders have to lead.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.