Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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.

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Walters, J. Donald

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Batten, Joe

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Depree, Max

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Ward, Ted

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Proverb, German

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee