Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Marx, Groucho

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hennessy, Edward

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Ovid

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Ward, Ted