Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

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

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Milton, John

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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 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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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.

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

Townsend, Robert

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Batten, Joe

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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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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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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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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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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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