Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Leadership

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Milton, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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 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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Motto

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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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.