Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Milton, John

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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Half, Robert

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.