Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Allen, Norman

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

Patton, George S.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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.

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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 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

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Motto

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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 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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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 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.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Peters, Thomas 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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord