Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

- Newcomb, Arthur W.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Brecht, Bertolt

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Ervin, Sam

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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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Walters, J. Donald

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, German

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Confucius

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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 world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ward, Ted

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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