Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Iacocca, Lee

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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.

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.