While recognizing that there are many principles, or truths. Pertaining to the exercise of leadership, and while firmly believing that powers of leadership can be greatly increased in any individual through knowledge of these principles and practice in their application, I still think the variables of human nature combined with those of combat, and to a lesser degree with those in peacetime training, make the exercise of leadership far more of an art than science.

The art of leadership is in the ability to make people want to work for you, while they are really under no obligation to do so. Leaders are people, who raise the standards by which they judge themselves and by which they are willing to be judged. The goal chosen, the objective selected, the requirements imposed, are not mainly for their followers alone. They develop with consumate energy and devotion, their own skill and knowledge in order to reach the standard they themselves have set. This whole-hearted acceptance of the demands imposed by even higher standards is the basis of all human progress. A love of higher quality, we must remember, is essential in a leader.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

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

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

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.

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

the art of leading is about following your heart.

Leadership requires people to stick with you through thick and thin. Leadership is the ability to rally people not for a single event, but for years. In business, leadership means that customers will continue to support your company even when you slip up.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Leadership is the ability to rally people not for a single event, but for years. In business, leadership means that customers will continue to support your company even when you slip up.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is the ability to rally people not for a single event, but for years.