Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Meir, Golda

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

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Half, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ward, Ted

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph