Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Half, Robert

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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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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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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Proverb, French

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Laura Preble

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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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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.