Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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!

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schorr, James

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Peters, Thomas J.

17.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Motto

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

Milton, John

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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

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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian