Leadership By Famous Leaders Quotes - Page 2

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Leadership, People, Vision

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• Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Powerful, Role Models

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• What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Impact, Best Leader

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• He who has great power should use it lightly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Philosophical, Vision

  "Troades". Line 336, 1st century.

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• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Leadership, Nature

  As quoted in "The Christian Science Monitor", December 20, 1984.

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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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• It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career". Book by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119, 2003.

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• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  Pat Riley

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

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• No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

  Philip Danforth Armour

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fighting

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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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• In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Power, Past

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Being A Leader, Managers

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

  Edmund Spenser

  Leadership, Motivation, Great Leader

  Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard (1842). “Faerie queene. book III-V”, p.245

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• No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Average, Needs

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Presidential, Sticks

  Letter to Henry L. Sprague, 26 Jan. 1900

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• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

  Ovid

  Leadership, Vision, Empowering Others

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• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

  Everett Dirksen

  Leadership, Business, Men

  Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.

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• In times of change, learners inherit the earth

  Erich Fromm

  Leadership, Times Have Changed, Earth

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sadness

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