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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Wanamaker, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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 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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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Allen, Norman

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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