Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Schorr, James

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 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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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Milton, John

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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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 leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon