Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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.

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

Barker, Joel A.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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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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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

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

Wanamaker, John

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Perot, H. Ross

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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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 are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''