Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Maurois, Andre

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Perot, H. Ross

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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