Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

- Jaques, Elliott

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Meir, Golda

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

Milton, John

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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!

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ward, Ted

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Half, Robert

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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 nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Confucius

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Proverb, German

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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