Funny Leadership Quotes - Page 2

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  Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, Art, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

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• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Motivational, Leadership, People

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• The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

  Robert Bloch

  Funny, Smile, Hilarious

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• The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Business, Hate

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• The only real training for leadership is leadership.

  Antony Jay

  Leadership, Real, Coaching

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Business, Blow

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• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".

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• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Time

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, People, President

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Twelfth" (radio program) (1980) See Twain 14

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• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Political, Adults

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

  Tony Blair

  Motivational, Leadership, Art

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspiring, Leadership, Fear

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

  John Naisbitt

  Leadership, Parades, Findings

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Leadership, Insperational

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

  Carl Sagan

  Laughter, Doing You, Doe

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, People

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• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Differences, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Business, Storm

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