Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Batten, Joe

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Motto

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!