Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Peter Drucker

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Half, Robert

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Depree, Max

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Motto

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

Motto

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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

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

Ward, Ted

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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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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

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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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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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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 have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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