Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

10.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Half, Robert

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry