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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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.

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, French

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Walters, J. Donald

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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 has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Townsend, Robert

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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.

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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.

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian