Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

- Justinian

Best Quotes about Leadership

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

Allen, Norman

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Confucius

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Packard, Vance

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

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

Motto

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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