Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

1.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

5.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

6.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

7.

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

Lindner, Robert

8.

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.

9.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

10.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

11.

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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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.

13.

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

Motto

14.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

15.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

16.

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

17.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

18.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

20.

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

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

George Goethals

23.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

24.

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

Confucius

25.

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

Motto

26.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

27.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

28.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

29.

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

Oech, Roger Von

30.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

31.

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

32.

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

Saying, Zen

33.

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

34.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Patton, George S.

37.

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

38.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

39.

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

Proverb, German

40.

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

41.

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

42.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.