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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Peter Drucker

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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.

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

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ovid

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Depree, Max

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

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Motto

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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

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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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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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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.