Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

- Lee Iacocca

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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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.

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Half, Robert

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

Schorr, James

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

Peter Drucker

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Confucius

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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 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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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 of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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.