Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Marx, Groucho

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Wanamaker, John

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Milton, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Meir, Golda

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, German

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

Half, Robert

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee