Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership must be established from the top down.

- Nunn, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Bennis, Warren

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.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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 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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Batten, Joe

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

Wanamaker, John

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Half, Robert

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

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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 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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Popularity is not leadership.