Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Wanamaker, John

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Half, Robert

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Ward, Ted

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Batten, Joe

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

Lao-Tzu

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Melbourne, Lord

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schorr, James

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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

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ovid

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Miller, Henry

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Depree, Max

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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.