Motivational Quotes

Leadership

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

- Humes, James

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Confucius

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Depree, Max

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hennessy, Edward

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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Saying, Zen

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Patton, George S.

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Miller, Henry

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

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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