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

Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, as quoted in The Federal Career Service : A Look Ahead (1954).

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading … Either case is a failure of leadership.

Source: Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995).

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

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Leadership in education is about learning – the learning of others has to be at heart of the decision-making of any educational leader.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Source: This quote is from “Trade Mart Speech” (Kennedy’s Last Speech), November 22, 1963.

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

Leaders are people who focus attention on a vision.