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 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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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.

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

Saying, Zen

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

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 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 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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bennis, Warren

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Schorr, James

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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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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Leadership must be established from the top down.