Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Motto

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Naisbitt, John

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Maurois, Andre

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Proverb, French

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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 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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Lao-Tzu