Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

- Lee Iacocca

Best Quotes about Leadership

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

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.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Depree, Max

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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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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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

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Half, Robert

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

Confucius

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, German

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