Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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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Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

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

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

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Naisbitt, John

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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 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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Lukas, Wayne

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Motto

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Peter Drucker

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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 wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim