Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Men are lead by trifles.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

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

Schorr, James

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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 herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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