Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Ward, Ted

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Confucius

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lao-Tzu

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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.

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Motto

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Churchill, Winston

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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