Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Allen, Norman

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

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Motto

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Proverb, German

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

Diderot, Denis

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Confucius

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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

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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.

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

Ward, Ted

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

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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