Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laura Preble

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

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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 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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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