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Leadership

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

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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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.

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

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

Batten, Joe

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Depree, Max

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peter Drucker

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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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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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

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Laura Preble

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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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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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.