Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

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"Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing"

Colin Powell, Statesman

Colin Powell

"You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

Brian Mulroney

"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

Warren G. Bennis

"Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

Warren G. Bennis

"I praise loudly. I blame softly"

Catherine the Great, Royalty

Catherine the Great

"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

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

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them"

John C. Maxwell, Clergyman

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

Samuel Adams

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it, you almost don't have to manage them"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

Harold S. Geneen

"A good example is far better than a good precept"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

Dwight L. Moody

"Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm"

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Entertainer

"Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first"

Simon Sinek, Writer

Simon Sinek

"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players"

Blaine Lee, Author

Blaine Lee

"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame"

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

"You get the best effort from others, not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within"

Bob Nelson, Writer

"I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information"

Jean Moulin, Activist

"Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve"

Tom Landry, Coach

"I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

Dustin Diamond

"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates"

Arleigh Burke, Soldier

"Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa"

T. Boone Pickens, Businessman

"Lead from the front"

Audie Murphy, Soldier

"I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement"

Charles Schwab, Businessman

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"One man with courage is a majority"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Example is leadership"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

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