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

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

Ovid

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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!

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

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

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Perot, H. Ross

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Confucius

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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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 measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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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 an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo