Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Patton, George S.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Milton, John

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

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

Allen, Norman

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter Drucker

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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

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Batten, Joe

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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 best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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 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 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

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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