Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Peters, Thomas J.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Schorr, James

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Laura Preble

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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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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

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Depree, Max

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De