Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Motto

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

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

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

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.

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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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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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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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 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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Ovid

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Proverb

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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

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Laura Preble

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Bennis, Warren

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.