Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Depree, Max

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

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

Ovid

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

12.

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

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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Patton, George S.

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Confucius

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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

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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 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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Walters, J. Donald

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Milton, John

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

Peter Drucker

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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