Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Leadership

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Allen, Norman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Ovid

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Batten, Joe

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

Schorr, James

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Motto

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon