Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Confucius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

11.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Oech, Roger Von

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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