Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Milton, John

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Schorr, James

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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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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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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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Ward, Ted

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Perot, H. Ross