Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Leadership

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Motto

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Walters, J. Donald

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Milton, John

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.