Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Maxwell, John C.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Ward, Ted

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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

George Goethals