Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Leadership

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

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

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

Allen, Norman

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

Half, Robert

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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

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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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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schorr, James

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

Peter Drucker

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

Proverb, German

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Milton, John

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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 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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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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.