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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Bennis, Warren

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

10.

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.

11.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

13.

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

14.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

15.

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

16.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

17.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

18.

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

19.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Bennis, Warren

21.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

22.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

23.

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

24.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

25.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

27.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

28.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

29.

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

30.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

31.

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

32.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

33.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

35.

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

36.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

41.

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

Marx, Groucho

42.

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

43.

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

Perot, H. Ross

44.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

45.

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

46.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

47.

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

48.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

49.

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

50.

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

Adelman, Ken