Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bennis, Warren

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

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

Diogenes of Sinope

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Schorr, James

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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

Maurois, Andre

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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 real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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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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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

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Milton, John

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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