Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Diderot, Denis

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Peter Drucker

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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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 knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Half, Robert

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, Ted

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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.