Dwight D. Eisenhower: Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done…
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Source
- The Federal Career Service: A Look Ahead (1954), as cited on Wikiquote; wording there: 'by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it'
- Also quoted as
- Also quoted as “By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.”
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