“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 99.
Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 9. <br class="br">On Leading Well
“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 99.
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”
Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Variant: Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.
Source: Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential
Kent Thiry (1956) Business; CEO of DaVita
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business Commencement Address (2013)
Frank Gehry (1929) Canadian-American (b.1929)
Helen D. Hume (2010) The Art Teacher's Book of Lists. p. 304.
“Saying no is its own leadership capability. It is not just a peripheral skill.”
Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Twitter
Hugo Diemer (1870–1937) American mechanical engineer
(1921, p. 10); Diemer quotes the ASCM committee
Factory organization and administration, 1910
“A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
A Poet's Advice (1958)
Context: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.