Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Barker, Joel A.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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.

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

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

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, 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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Proverb, German

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo