Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Iacocca, Lee

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Half, Robert

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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 action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Peter Drucker

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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.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Depree, Max

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Proverb, German