Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lao-Tzu

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Wanamaker, John

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Ford, Henry

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

Schorr, James

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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

36.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Diderot, Denis

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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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