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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

— Nelson Mandela

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

— Irene Rosenfeld

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

— R. Kelly

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

— Nelson Mandela

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

— Sheri L. Dew

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

— Joe Namath

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

— Henry Miller

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

People look for their leadership to lead.

— Mick Cornett

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

— Leonard Lauder

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