Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

- Piatt, Don

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Parker, Dorothy

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Depree, Max

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

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

Peter Drucker

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

13.

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.

14.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

15.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Laura Preble

19.

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.

20.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

21.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

23.

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

Ervin, Sam

24.

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

Wanamaker, John

25.

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

Lao-Tzu

26.

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

29.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

30.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

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

32.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

33.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

34.

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

35.

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

36.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

37.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

38.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

39.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

40.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

42.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

43.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

44.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

45.

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

46.

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

Perot, H. Ross

47.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman