Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

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

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lindner, Robert

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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!

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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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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Oech, Roger Von

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Laura Preble

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

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, German

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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