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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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Enrico, Roger

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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 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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Half, Robert

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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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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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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

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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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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Motto

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall