Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Laura Preble

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schorr, James

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 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

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bennis, Warren

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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!