Motivational Quotes

Leadership

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Leadership

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Naisbitt, John

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

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.

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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Half, Robert

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Wanamaker, John

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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