Author: Frances Hesselbein

Quotes

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

- Frances Hesselbein

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

- Frances Hesselbein

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

- Frances Hesselbein

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

- Frances Hesselbein

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

- Frances Hesselbein

In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.

In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.

- Frances Hesselbein

At a young age, I learned from my grandmother that I should respect all people. Her lessons were defining moments in my life and determined the type of leader that I would become.

At a young age, I learned from my grandmother that I should respect all people. Her lessons were defining moments in my life and determined the type of leader that I would become.

- Frances Hesselbein

Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.

Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.

- Frances Hesselbein

There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.

There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.

- Frances Hesselbein

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