Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Depree, Max

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Perot, H. Ross

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Wanamaker, John

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Milton, John

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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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.