Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Half, Robert

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ward, Ted

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

George Goethals

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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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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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI