Motivational Quotes

Leadership

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Laura Preble

2.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

6.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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.

Seymour, Harold J.

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Wanamaker, John

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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

14.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

19.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

20.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

21.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

22.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

23.

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

Proverb, German

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

29.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

30.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

36.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Peters, Thomas J.

41.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

42.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.