Yet More Leadership Quotes And Sayings

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“Great ambition is the passion oaf great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.”
– Napoleon

“An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.”
– Napoleon

“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

“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.”
– Norman Schwarzkopf

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
– Orison Swett Marden

“If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.”
– Peter Drucker

“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”
– Ralph Nader

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
– Ralph Nader

“The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.”
– Robert Heller

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”
– Robert Townsend

“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.”
– Robin Sharma

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.”
– Rosalynn Carter

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

“A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.”
– Russell H. Ewing

“How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.”
– Sir John Harvey-Jones

“Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.”
– Stephen Covey

“Be the Leader, Make the Difference provides the right ingredients to produce effective leaders. Its required reading for anyone who wants to lead and add value.”
– Steve Davis

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
– Steve Jobs

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
– Steve Jobs

“A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.”
– Swahili Proverb

“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.”
– T. Boone Pickens

“In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The best executive 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

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing so conclusively proves a mans ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
– Thomas J. Watson

“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
– Thomas Sowell

“I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.”
– Tom Landry

“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is yes. very easy to say yes.”
– Tony Blair

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
– Unknown

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