Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

- Hennessy, Edward

Best Quotes about Leadership

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Miller, Henry

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Confucius

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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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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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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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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

19.

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ovid

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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 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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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

28.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Half, Robert

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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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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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Ward, Ted

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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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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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 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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De