Leader Quotes - Page 8

• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 12, 2013

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• A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

  James Callaghan

  Leadership, Courage, Political

  "The Harvard Business Review" Magazine, November 1, 1986.

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• It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Motivation, Impossible

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• Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
  to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

  John McCain

  Leadership, Honesty, Integrity

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• You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Leadership, Dream, Famous Inspirational

  Back to Methuselah pt. 1, act 1 (1921). This was a favorite quotation of Robert F. Kennedy's, and Edward M. Kennedy used it in his eulogy of Robert Kennedy.

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

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leadership, Running, Optimistic

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Being A Leader, Managers

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Leadership, Nature

  As quoted in "The Christian Science Monitor", December 20, 1984.

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• To lead people, walk behind them.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Business, People

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• Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Presidential, Sticks

  Letter to Henry L. Sprague, 26 Jan. 1900

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• A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Jobs, Smart

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Army

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• 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.

  Liu Shaoqi

  Leadership, Past, Pigs

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• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  Larry Page

  Meaningful, Jobs, Business

  "How Google's Larry Page became a responsible entrepreneur" by Carol Sanford, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2014.

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• More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.

  Lance Secretan

  Leadership, Spiritual, Believe

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• Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Currency, Credibility

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• The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Boss, Boss And Leader

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• The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go!'

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Boss, Boss And Leader

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• Leaders grow; they are not made.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Made, Grows

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• It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

  James Hunter

  Responsibility, Rights, Accountability

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business

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• There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, People

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• The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

  Garry Wills

  Leadership, Goal, Support

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

  Garry Wills

  Leadership, Motivation, Goal

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

  Pete Hoekstra

  Inspirational, Leadership, Real

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• Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Children, Writing

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