Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

- Lee Iacocca

Best Quotes about Leadership

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Proverb, French

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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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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 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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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 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 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

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Ward, Ted

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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

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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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 first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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 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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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.