Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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 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

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Townsend, Robert

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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.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Confucius

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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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.