Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When we think we lead we are most led.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Caine, Mark

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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Milton, John

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Ovid

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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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

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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 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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John