Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

- Seymour, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Maxwell, John C.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Lindner, Robert

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Schorr, James

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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 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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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Ward, Ted

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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 often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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 not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Depree, Max

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.