Motivational Quotes

Leadership

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Half, Robert

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Lukas, Wayne

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Schorr, James

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Depree, Max

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim