Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Quotations

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.