Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The right man comes at the right time.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Leadership

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Laura Preble

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

Ward, Ted

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Milton, John

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

Motto

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Schorr, James

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Bennis, Warren

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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

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Confucius

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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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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.