Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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.

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

Laura Preble

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

Diderot, Denis

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Lukas, Wayne

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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 person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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 must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Schorr, James

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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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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

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

Milton, 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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.