Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Leadership

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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!

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Peters, Thomas J.

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Naisbitt, John

11.

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

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Laura Preble

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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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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Proverb, French

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin