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

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

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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.

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

Naisbitt, John

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.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

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

Packard, Vance

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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.