Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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 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

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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Half, Robert

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

28.

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

33.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Motto

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Ovid

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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