Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Meir, Golda

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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.

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 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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Motto

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Ward, Ted

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Depree, Max

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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