Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Men are lead by trifles.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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.

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

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

Allen, Norman

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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 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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Walters, J. Donald

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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.

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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