Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

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

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Confucius

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Depree, Max

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo