Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lukas, Wayne

Best Quotes about Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Schorr, James

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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.

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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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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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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

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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

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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.