Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Half, Robert

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

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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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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Milton, John

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Proverb, German

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

Walters, J. Donald

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Ovid

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Motto

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

Confucius

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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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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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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 best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Churchill, Winston