Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Leadership

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

10.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Saying, Zen

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Laura Preble

18.

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

Barker, Joel A.

19.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

21.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

22.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

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

Diogenes of Sinope

24.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

25.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

26.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

27.

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

Proverb

28.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

Hennessy, Edward

31.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

32.

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

Bennis, Warren

33.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

34.

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

Perot, H. Ross

35.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

36.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Ward, Ted

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

42.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

43.

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

44.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.