Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

- Half, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ervin, Sam

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Peter Drucker

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

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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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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 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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Schorr, James

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Milton, John

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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.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Batten, Joe

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