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

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Motto

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Townsend, Robert

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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.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Motto

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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, German

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

Ovid

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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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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Stendhal, Henri B.