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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Miller, Henry

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Ford, Henry

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Motto

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Motto

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Half, Robert

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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