Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

- Lee Iacocca

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lao-Tzu

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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.

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

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Marx, Groucho

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

17.

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

Confucius

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Motto

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Townsend, Robert

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

36.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Half, Robert

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Lindner, Robert

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Proverb, French

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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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