Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schorr, James

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

Confucius

11.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Motto

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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