Leadership Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. |
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| Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. |
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| When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| A leader is a dealer in hope. |
| - Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. |
| - Eugene V. Debs |
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| So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. |
| - Peter F. Drucker |
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| A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. |
| - Indira Gandhi |
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| What luck for rulers, that men do not think. |
| - Adolf Hitler |
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| Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. |
| - Anthony J. D'Angelo |
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| Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. |
| - André Malraux |
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| You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. |
| - Gene Mauch |
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| A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. |
| - Golda Meir |
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| The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. |
| - Henry Miller |
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| Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. |
| - Tom Peters |
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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 enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. |
| - Theodore Roosevelt |
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| A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. |
| - Albert Schweitzer |
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| Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. |
| - Charles Simic |
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| To lead the people, walk behind them. |
| - Lao Tzu |
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| Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. |
| - Sam Walton |
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