Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Peter Drucker

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Lindner, Robert

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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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Motto

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Depree, Max

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

Proverb, German

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Schorr, James