Quotes about leadership




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"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on leadership
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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. on leadership
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."

Ellis, Havelock on leadership
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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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 on leadership    Share

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

Ervin, Sam on leadership
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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 on leadership    Share

"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. on leadership
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"Right or wrong, the customer is always right."

Field, Marshall on leadership    Share

"Who has not served cannot command."

Florio, John on leadership    Share

"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. on leadership    Share

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

Ford, Henry on leadership    Share

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster on leadership
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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 on leadership
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Gandhi, Mahatma on leadership
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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. on leadership    Share

"There are no office hours for leaders."

Gibbons, Cardinal J. on leadership    Share

"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. on leadership    Share

"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 on leadership
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"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

Grizzard, Lewis on leadership
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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 on leadership    Share

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."

Half, Robert on leadership    Share

"Those who can command themselves command others."

Hazlitt, William on leadership
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"Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example."

Hennessy, Edward on leadership    Share

"There is great force hidden in a gentle command."

Herbert, George on leadership    Share

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

Hesburgh, Theodore M. on leadership
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"In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on leadership    Share

"One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers."

Humes, James on leadership
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"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on leadership    Share

"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

Iacocca, Lee on leadership    Share

"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 on leadership    Share

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

Johnson, Lyndon B. on leadership
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"Morale is faith in the man at the top."

Johnston, Albert Sidney on leadership
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"Leaders are readers."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on leadership    Share

"The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity."

Jung, Carl on leadership    Share

"Keep cool and you will command everyone."

Justinian on leadership    Share

"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."

Kennedy, John F. on leadership
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