Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Half, Robert

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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 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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Naisbitt, John

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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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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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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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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu