Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Maurois, Andre

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Half, Robert

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

Proverb, German

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Milton, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Laura Preble

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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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

Ward, Ted

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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