Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Saying, Zen

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Iacocca, Lee

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Lukas, Wayne

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Motto

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Peter Drucker

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Ford, Henry

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, German

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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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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

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo