Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peter Drucker

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Motto

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

Half, Robert

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Proverb, German

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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

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

Milton, John

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Confucius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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