LEADERSHIP

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(991 votes)  If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(801 votes)  As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(738 votes)  Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(721 votes)  A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

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(701 votes)  Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(693 votes)  The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

Elaine Agather

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(688 votes)  The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Marian Anderson
1902-1993, American Contralto Concert and Opera Singer

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(683 votes)  A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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(681 votes)  Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Norman Allen

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(681 votes)  If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Rabbi Ben Azai
Israeli Rabbi

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(659 votes)  Who has not served cannot command.

John Florio
c.1553-1625, British Author, Translator

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(656 votes)  The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

John Adair
British Speaker

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(649 votes)  What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(648 votes)  'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(643 votes)  Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA

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(626 votes)  A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Ken Adelman
American Journalist

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(614 votes)  The right man comes at the right time.

Italian Proverb
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(608 votes)  Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(607 votes)  The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

R. S. Donnell

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(607 votes)  Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(603 votes)  I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(600 votes)  A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says I was beaten, he does not say My men were beaten.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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(598 votes)  The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. . . The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Walter Lippmann

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(593 votes)  It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(592 votes)  Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Aeschylus
BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist

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(591 votes)  The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Fnhrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(586 votes)  We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(585 votes)  Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

J. Donald Walters
American Author, Lecturer, Playwright

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(579 votes)  I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(579 votes)  I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.( Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe [1954], 135.)

Brigham Young
Religious Leader, 2nd Mormon President - b 1801-1877

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(575 votes)  I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(569 votes)  When the best leader's work is done the people say, ''We did it ourselves.''

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(567 votes)  To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Havelock Ellis
1859-1939, British Psychologist

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(566 votes)  Those who can command themselves command others.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(562 votes)  To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Joe Namath
1943-, American Football Player

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(562 votes)  The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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(557 votes)  Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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(555 votes)  It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Robert Lindner

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(553 votes)  Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker
1909-, American Management Consultant, Author

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(551 votes)  A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Sam Ervin

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(546 votes)  As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates

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(541 votes)  Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Max Depree
1924-, American Furniture Manufacturing Company Executive

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(538 votes)  Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Edward Hennessy
American Business Executive, CEO of Allied Signal

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(538 votes)  Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Thomas J. Peters
1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer

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(537 votes)  All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Thomas J. Peters
1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer

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(535 votes)  It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(522 votes)  The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

H. Wheeler Robinson

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(521 votes)  The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Warren Bennis
1925-, American Psychologist, Management Educator, and Consultant

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(520 votes)  Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian
c.482-565, Roman Emperor

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(515 votes)  Leadership is action, not position.

Donald McGannon

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