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

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

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

Lindner, Robert

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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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 the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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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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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.