Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Motto

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

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

Depree, Max

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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 is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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

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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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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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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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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.