Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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!

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Ovid

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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 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

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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