Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Melbourne, Lord

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Confucius

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

Naisbitt, John

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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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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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ervin, Sam

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Lindner, Robert

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Laura Preble

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Motto

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren