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 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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Half, 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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Proverb, French

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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

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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Motto

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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