Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Confucius

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.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Half, Robert

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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.

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Proverb

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius