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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Naisbitt, John

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

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

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Peter Drucker

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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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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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Meir, Golda

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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Motto

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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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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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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