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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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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Meir, Golda

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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

Bennis, Warren

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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

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

Ward, Ted

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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 is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.