Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

- Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Confucius

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.

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Naisbitt, John

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

George Goethals

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Maurois, Andre

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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