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

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

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

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

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Enrico, Roger

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Schorr, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy