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

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

Laura Preble

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

Daniel Akst

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

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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.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Lindner, Robert

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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.

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

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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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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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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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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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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Townsend, Robert

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Peter Drucker

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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

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Schorr, James

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius