Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Ward, Ted

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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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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.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Half, Robert

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Ovid

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.