Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, French

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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Ovid

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

Schorr, James

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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 army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Milton, John

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Naisbitt, John

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Laura Preble

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

Confucius

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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

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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 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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S