Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Ward, Ted

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

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

Maxwell, John C.

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Motto

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Depree, Max

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hennessy, Edward

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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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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 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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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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.