Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Allen, Norman

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

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

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

George Goethals

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

Milton, John

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Wanamaker, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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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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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.