Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership must be established from the top down.

- Nunn, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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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

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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 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 leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

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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