Motivational Quotes

Leadership

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Milton, John

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

Ward, Ted

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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 is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Ovid

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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Men are lead by trifles.

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

Peter Drucker

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

Confucius

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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.