Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Bennis, Warren

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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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

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

Wanamaker, John

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Ford, Henry

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

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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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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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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people