Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

- Saunders, Richard

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

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

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.

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Motto

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Motto

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Milton, John

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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 lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Ford, Henry

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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