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

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Packard, Vance

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John 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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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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.

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Naisbitt, John

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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