Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

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

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, French

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milton, John

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.