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

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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Adelman, Ken

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wanamaker, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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 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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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