Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Best Quotes about Leadership

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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 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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Half, Robert

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Ward, Ted

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.