Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Leadership

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

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!

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Packard, Vance

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

Patton, George S.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Miller, Henry

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Motto

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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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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Half, Robert

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince