Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Leadership

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

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.

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Proverb, German

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Half, Robert

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Diderot, Denis

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Motto

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Ward, Ted

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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