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

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Adelman, Ken

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Ward, Ted

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, 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

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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.

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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 chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Lindner, Robert

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Depree, Max

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Caine, Mark

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.