Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Patton, George S.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Bennis, Warren

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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 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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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.

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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Laura Preble

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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.