Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Leadership

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Peter Drucker

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Depree, Max

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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.