Quotes about leadership

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

Milton, John on leadership   

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

Motto on leadership   

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

Motto on leadership   

"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."

Naisbitt, John on leadership   

"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 on leadership
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"Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader."

Newcomb, Arthur W. on leadership   

"I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction."

Nixon, Richard M. on leadership   

"Leadership must be established from the top down."

Nunn, Sam on leadership   

"It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray."

Oech, Roger Von on leadership   

"A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities."

Ormont, Jules on leadership   

"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 on leadership   

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

Ovid on leadership   

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

Packard, Vance on leadership   

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."

Parker, Dorothy on leadership
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"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."

Parrish, Amos on leadership   

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

Patton, George S. on leadership   

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

Patton, George S. on leadership
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"Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time."

Perot, H. Ross on leadership   

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

Peters, Thomas J. on leadership
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"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."

Peters, Thomas J. on leadership   

"The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols."

Peters, Thomas J. on leadership   

"The person who has no enemies has no followers."

Piatt, Don on leadership   

"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope."

Pope John XXIII on leadership   

"Among the blind the one eyed is king."

Proverb on leadership
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"An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag."

Proverb on leadership
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"When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow."

Proverb, French on leadership   

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

Proverb, German on leadership   

"The right man comes at the right time."

Proverb, Italian on leadership
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"Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself."

Proverb, Italian on leadership   

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."

Rayburn, Sam on leadership   

"The penalty of leadership is loneliness."

Robinson, H. Wheeler on leadership
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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. on leadership   

"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 on leadership
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"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average."

Rohn, Jim on leadership
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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 on leadership
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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 on leadership
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"Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on leadership   

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on leadership   

"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 on leadership
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"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

Roosevelt, Theodore on leadership