More Quotes on Leadership
A collection
of quotations on Leadership, alphabetical by source, N thru Z.
"Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people.
Inventories can be managed but people must be lead."
-- Ross Perot
"For the talents and ideas
of
others to emerge, leaders need to step back and provide the space for
this to occur."
-- Jeff Pfeffer
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind,
but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be
humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but
without folly."
-- Jim Rohn
"The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds
without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The
most successful manager leads without dictating.This is intelligent
non-aggressiveness. This is called mastery."
-- Lao-Tse
"The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks
and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of
this world. These are people who have come to understand that no
punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than
the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own
diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that
fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant
with what we know to be true on the inside."
-- Parker Palmer
"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."
-- Dolly Parton
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they'll
surprise you with their ingenuity."
-- George S. Patton
"In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much
more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open
than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles."
-- Bill Parcells
"The deeper your
relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership.
People will not follow you if they not trust you and before someone
will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart."
-- Robin S. Sharma, Thoughts from Great Minds
"People work harder for leaders who show courage, creativity, clarity,
and compassion."
-- Douglas Brent Smith, on: Twitter
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"Leadership in virtually any group of any size is not something that
only one person can, should, or does provide. Everyone has a role to
play."
-- Robin Stuart-Kotze, Do Strong
Leaders Destroy Leadership? October 6, 2008
"Never criticize until the person is convinced of your unconditional
confidence in their abilities. "
-- John Robinson
"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly
to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
-- Jim Rohn
"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you
can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash."
-- Harriet Rubin
"Management will recognize the need for education and retraining when
they realize that people are an asset and not an expense."
-- William Scherkenbach
“No one is as good as they know how to be.”
-- Bob Schultz
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away
from those who are still undecided."
-- Casey Stengal
"Words like promises, deceit, honor, courage, sacrifice, and
forgiveness are words that speak to higher human values. We hear and
process these words in a profoundly different way than we do common
commercial language. Say these words out loud right now. Process their
potency for yourself. They are the words of the leader. Make them your
words."
-- Gregg Thompson (President of Bluepoint Leadership Development)
"Any evidence that you're putting your personal gain ahead of your
organization's welfare is one of the most discrediting things you can
do in leadership, It becomes a litmus test for any followers, about
whether they want to go with the man or woman at the top."
-- Michael Useem, Wharton School of Business, quoted in the NY Times, 7
April 2002
"If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people
wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be
frustrated."
-- Frank F. Warren
"There is always room at the top."
-- Daniel Webster
Leadership is an art that consists of skills that can be studied,
practiced and mastered.
-- Barry Werner
"In organizations, real power and energy is generated through
relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form
them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions."
-- Margaret Wheatly, Leadership and
the New Science
"You are responsible for the world that you live in."
-- August Wilson
"You don't motivate people. You influence what they're motivated to
do."
-- John Woods
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