Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Townsend, Robert

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Laura Preble

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

Motto

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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 leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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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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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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