Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Schorr, James

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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!

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

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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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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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald 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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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 secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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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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

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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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