Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Wanamaker, John

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Marx, Groucho

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Allen, Norman

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, French

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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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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

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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 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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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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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.

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Dyer, Wayne

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Ford, Henry

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.