Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Motto

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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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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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Half, Robert

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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 ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Peters, Thomas J.