Best Leadership Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 34

Author:Laozi

“Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.”

Ifs Looks Past Leadership Perfect Effort Leader China Noses Pretending Elsewhere Pigs Leadership Development Elephants

Author:Liu Shaoqi

“Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.”

Next Leadership Decision Generations Benefits Next Generation Leadership Courage

Author:Alan Autry

“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.”

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Book:High Technology and Human Freedom

Source: High Technology and Human Freedom

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

People Peace Leadership

Author:Jeannette Rankin

“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.”

Men Should Doe Ideas Truth Peace Women Leadership Accepting Moral Dangerous Position Rate Refuse Fixing Ubuntu Tariffs Position Of Power Soundness

Author:Ida Tarbell

“America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.”

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Author:Arianna Huffington

“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.”

“...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"”

Firsts Leadership Sin Answers Business Leader Function Management Max

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.”

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Author:Sun Tzu

“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.”

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Author:Tacitus

“Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.”

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Author:Dee Hock

“What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.”

“Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get to confident.”

Way Real Running Success Motivation Winning Loses Leadership Acting Careful Self Confidence Be Careful Running Away Real Success

Author:Nancy Kerrigan

“The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.”

Self Leadership Confidence Discipline Integrity Loyalty Characteristics Effective Leadership Mystique

Author:James Fisher

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.”

Inspirational Character Shows Eye Lasts Strong Grows Leadership Sleep Courage Human Nature Hero Weak Crisis Occasions Coward Life And Love

Author:Brooke Westcott

“The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.”

People Inspirational Three Leadership Business Vision Products Execution Phases

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.”

“A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.”

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Author:Carl Icahn

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.”

Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

“Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.”

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.”

People Inspirational Motivational Leadership Walks Leader Dependent

Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership

“Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.”

People Leadership Ability Achievement Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Extraordinary Achievement

Author:Brian Tracy

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

World Needs Inspiration Success Motivation Leadership Deals Self Esteem Confidence Right Now Anxiety Esteem Within You Life And Love Self Esteem And Confidence Confidence Boosting Written Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.”

Self Leadership Leader Inspire Function Institutions Defined Anxious Regulation

Book:A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

Source: A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”

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Author:Robert McKee

“If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.”

Ifs Writing Stories Shows Inspiration Leadership Leader Show Me Essays

Author:Barbara Greene

“To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.”

People Different Able Leadership Oneself Agents

Author:Beverly Daniel Tatum

“Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.”

Wells Remember Community Leadership Responsibility Our Family Remember You Remembers You

Author:Cherrie Moraga

“Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.”

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Author:Eric Shinseki

“The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.”

Men Art Problem Humanity Leadership Business Operations Squares Behalf Sympathetic Insisting

Author:Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

“Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title”

Passion Leadership Differences Position Excellence Titles Making A Difference Job Titles Passion For Excellence

Author:Robin Sharma

“Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership”

Leadership Greatness Mark Dare

Author:Brian Tracy

“The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'”

Ifs Two Important Three Speak Leadership Leader Opinion Five Four Proud Please Single Word Proud Of You Important Words

Author:Denis Waitley

“Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves”

People Leadership Emotion Leader Excited

Author:Brian Tracy

“People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves”

People Opportunity Given Leadership Talent Discovering Reservoirs

Author:Ricardo Semler

“If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.”

“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”

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Author:Confucius

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”

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Author:Ovid

“Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

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