Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

- Piatt, Don

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Schorr, James

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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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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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 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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Depree, Max

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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