Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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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

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Adelman, Ken

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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Depree, Max

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Naisbitt, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Laura Preble

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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

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

Motto

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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 not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ward, Ted

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