Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Half, Robert

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

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Depree, Max

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Allen, Norman

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Wanamaker, John

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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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.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Naisbitt, 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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ervin, Sam

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Saying, Zen