Motivational Quotes

Leadership

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Leadership

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

Seymour, Harold J.

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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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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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 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 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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.