Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lindner, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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 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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Stendhal, Henri B.