Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Packard, Vance

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Marden, Orison Swett

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Barker, Joel A.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Meir, Golda

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.