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

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Adelman, Ken

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Confucius

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Schorr, James

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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.

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Patton, George S.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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