Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Leadership

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

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

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Laura Preble

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Melbourne, Lord

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.