Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Saying, Zen

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Peter Drucker

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

Half, Robert

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schorr, James

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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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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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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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