"He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.”

William Shakespeare

“I am convinced that people are convinced by what leaders do, not what they say.”

Sir Anthony Cleaves

“Leadership means winning people’s hearts and minds.  To do so requires first winning one’s own.”

David Gilbert-Smith

“People watch the leader.  You should not seek to establish clones, but remember that in every aspect of your behaviour, you are setting standards for more junior colleagues who are ambitious.”

Clinton Silver

“Example is leadership.”

Albert Schweitzwer

“’Management by Walking Around’ gives the managers insight into the nitty gritty of their business and sets an important example.”

Clinton Silver

Deputy Chairman, Marks & Spencer

1991-1994

“You can only lead others where you yourself are willing to go.”

Lachlan McLean

“They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.”

Dr Laurence J Peter

“Your job gives you authority.  Your behaviour gives you respect.”

Irwin Federman

“Leadership is action, not position.”

Donald H McGannon

“Being good is good business.”

Anita Roddick

“It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at HarvardBusinessSchool.”

Sir John Harvey Jones

“I think it is an important law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises – but only performance is reality.”

Harold Geneen

“Leaders must be seen to be up-front, up to date, up to their job and up early in the morning ”

Lord Sieff

“Strategic leadership requires one other skill.  It is a readiness to look personally foolish; a total honesty; a readiness to admit you got it wrong.”

Sir John Hoskyns

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”

Confucius

“Too many people are trying to meet the right person instead of trying to be the right person.”

Russ Myers

“Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.”

George Geothals

“A leader who exercises power with honour will work from the inside out, starting with himself.”

Blaine Lee

“A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.“

Anon

“Leadership is a combination of strategy and character.  If you must be without one, be without the strategy.“

Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf.

“Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged.“

Fredrick Smith

“The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model.  Commit yourself to your own personal  mastery.  Talking about personal mastery may open people’s minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words.  There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.“

Peter Senge

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher.  I will pick out the good points of one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.“

Confucius

“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.  The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere.  Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.“

Warren Bennis

“People have more need for models than critics.“

Scott Simmerman

"Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear"

Edgar Guest

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