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

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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 like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schorr, James

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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 first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham