Leader Quotes - Page 2

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 16, 2016

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• As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Leadership, Jobs, Good Job

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

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Vision, Management

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Business, Character

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• The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.

  Otto Scharmer

  Connections, Today, Longing

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• The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Privilege

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

  Bill Bradley

  Teamwork, Collaboration, Should

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• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

  Robert Caro

  Party, Two, Years

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

  Solon

  Leadership, Learning, Knowing

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• To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Leadership, Excellence, Vision

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.160, Penguin

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Leadership, Greatness, Effectiveness

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• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• Earn your leadership every day.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Leadership, Vision

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• The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Military, Army

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, People

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• Leaders are those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Empowering

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• Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs
  of those who would be affected by it

  Marian Anderson

  Leadership, Education, Understanding

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, People, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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