Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oech, Roger Von

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Depree, Max

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

Miller, Henry

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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

Milton, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schorr, James

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De