OUR TOP 25

LEADERSHIP
QUOTATIONS
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Leadership Quote # 1

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing

the right things.

Peter F Drucker
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Leadership Quote # 2

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do

and let them surprise you with their results.

George S Patton
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Leadership Quote # 3

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do

something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight Eisenhower
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Leadership Quote # 4

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Benjamin Disraeli
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Leadership Quote # 5

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have

vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore M. Hesburgh
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Leadership Quote # 6

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.

Theodore Roosevelt
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Leadership Quote # 7

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that

when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell
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Leadership Quote # 8

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

Dwight Eisenhower
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Leadership Quote # 9

Situations need to be managed but people need to be

led.

Simon Cooper
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Leadership Quote # 10

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you

are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Franklin D Roosevelt
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Leadership Quote # 11

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Sophocles
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Leadership Quote # 12

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary

achievement from ordinary people.

Brian Tracy
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Leadership Quote # 13

Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made
just like anything else. . . through hard work. That's the
price we have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.

Vince Lombardi
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Leadership Quote # 14

Leaders instill in their people internal belief and

empower them to achieve their goals.

Simon Cooper
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Leadership Quote # 15

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be

difficult to master strategy.

Miyamoto Mursashi
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Leadership Quote # 16

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the

exhilaration of victory.

George S Patton
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Leadership Quote # 17

Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good

decision.

Colin Powell
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Leadership Quote # 18

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go

forward alone.

Harry Truman
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Leadership Quote # 19

The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking,

'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously,
the man who can sing tenor.

Henry Ford
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Leadership Quote # 20

Effective leadership is about earning respect.

Alan Sugar
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Leadership Quote # 21

The ability to summon positive emotions during periods

of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership.

Jim Loehr
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Leadership Quote # 22

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move

the hearts of men.

Goethe
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Leadership Quote # 23

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not
dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill
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Leadership Quote # 24

The leader’s job is not to cover all the bases - it is to see

that all bases are covered.

James Crupi
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Leadership Quote # 25

To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best

leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The
next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the
people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the
best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it
ourselves!

Lao-Tsu
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