Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is action, not position.

- Mcgannon, Donald H.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Maurois, Andre

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Schorr, James

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Confucius

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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 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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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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 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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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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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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.