Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, German

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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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 wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Milton, John

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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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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

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

Ward, Ted

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.