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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Half, Robert

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

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Meir, Golda

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Proverb, French

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

Confucius

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

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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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Ward, Ted

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