Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

- Adelman, Ken

Best Quotes about Leadership

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu