Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

- Piatt, Don

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Proverb

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.

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

George Goethals

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

Parker, Dorothy

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.

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Allen, Norman

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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 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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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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Marx, Groucho

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Wanamaker, John

33.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Diderot, Denis

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, German

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Ovid

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry