Leadership is that combination of qualities by the possession of which one is able to get something done by others, chiefly because through his influence they become willing to do it.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.

Leadership is interpersonal influence, exercised in a situation, and directed, through the communication process, toward the attainment of a specified goal or goals.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

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

Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you — not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

Leadership is producing a standard in someone that they will live by to produce higher level results consistently.

I began by reducing my own salary to $ 1.00 a year. Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move. I don’t mean they invade your privacy, although there’s some of that, too. But when the leader talks, people listen. And when the leader acts, people watch. So you have to be careful about everything you say and everything you do.

Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.