Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Ervin, Sam

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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.

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Schorr, James

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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

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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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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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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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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Melbourne, Lord

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Batten, Joe

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

35.

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

Proverb, German

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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.

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

Ovid

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius