Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When we think we lead we are most led.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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

Lukas, Wayne

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Milton, John

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell 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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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 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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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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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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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

George Goethals

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Ward, Ted

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ovid

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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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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Bennis, Warren