Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Confucius

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

Ward, Ted

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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

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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 best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Naisbitt, John

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard