Motivational Quotes

Leadership

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Confucius

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

Iacocca, Lee

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Ward, Ted

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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 readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Half, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laura Preble

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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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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Milton, John

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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

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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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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu