Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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• The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Greatness

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• Don't find fault, find a remedy.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Trust, Teamwork, Jobs

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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  Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  Jack Welch

  Educational, Inspiration, Helping Others

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Business, Failure, Organization

  "Wisdom, Honor & Hope: The Inner Path to True Greatness". Book by Cecil O. Kemp, Jr., May 1, 2000.

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Optimistic

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• No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.

  Steve Miller

  Running, Teacher, Struggle

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  The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Motivational, Poor Quality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Encouraging, Strong Women, Time

  "The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

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• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Basketball, Business

  "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Nice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Greatness

  An address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Washington D.C, March 31, 1968.

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• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  "Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Peace

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Ranking, Privilege

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.102, Routledge

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  The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Nfl, Secret

  "The Mentor Leader". Book by Tony Dungy, www.today.com. 2010.

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• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Insperational, Words Of Wisdom

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.86, Aristotle

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Basketball, Life And Love

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, Women, Power

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

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