Motivational Quotes

Leadership

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Wanamaker, John

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Schorr, James

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William