Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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.

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Marx, Groucho

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Proverb, German

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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 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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard