Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

25.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Saying, Zen

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Confucius

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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

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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.