Motivational Quotes

Leadership

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

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

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

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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 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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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 must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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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 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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.