Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When we think we lead we are most led.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Leadership

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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 placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Meir, Golda

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

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.

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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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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Perot, H. Ross

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert