Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders are readers.

- Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Motto

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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.

Landry, Tom

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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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 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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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.

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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