Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Oech, Roger Von

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb, French

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Depree, Max

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Oech, Roger Von

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Motto

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Confucius

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Naisbitt, John

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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 real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Stendhal, Henri B.