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

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

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.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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

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

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Motto

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

Half, Robert

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Depree, Max

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

Ovid

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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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.

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu