Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Ovid

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Milton, John

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Proverb, French

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, German

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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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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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

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.