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

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.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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 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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ervin, Sam

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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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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Proverb, German

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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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 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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Miller, Henry

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Popularity is not leadership.