Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Motto

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Peter Drucker

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schorr, James

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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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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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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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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Confucius

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

Lao-Tzu

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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.

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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