Society...Institutions...LEADERSHIP
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“Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
LEADERSHIP, Motivation, Communication
1129
“Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do and like it.” — Harry S. Truman
LEADERSHIP, Motivation
1130
“To be an effective leader, one must turn all of his so-called followers into leaders.”
— David C. McClelland
LEADERSHIP, Motivation
1131
“I was successful because you believed in me.” — Ulysses S. Grant
LEADERSHIP, Self-Confidence, Honor
1132
“The men who have changed the universe have never accomplished it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
LEADERSHIP, Motivation, Optimism, Attitude
1133
“Henry Ford could get anything out of men because he just talked and would tell them stories. He’d never say, ‘I want this done!’ He’d say, ‘I wonder if we can do it.’”
— George Brown
LEADERSHIP, Motivation, Optimism, Potential, Communication
1134 A
“Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.”
— The Talmud
LEADERSHIP, Courage, Dishonesty
1135 CA
“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army
of lions.” — Daniel Defoe
LEADERSHIP, Authority
1136 CA
“If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded
by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second.” — St. Vincent de Paul
LEADERSHIP, Authority, Winning
1137 P
“Leadership is action, not position.” — Donald H(enry) McGannon
LEADERSHIP, Authority
1138
“The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows.” — Clarence B. Randall
LEADERSHIP, Knowledge, Self-Confidence, Communication
1139
“I cannot commend to a business house any artificial plan for making men producers - any scheme for driving them into business-building. You must lead them through their self-interest. It is this alone that will keep them keyed up to the full capacity of their productiveness.”
— Charles H(erman) Steinway
LEADERSHIP, Motivation, Reward, Greed, Potential
1140
“Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them.” — John Ruskin
LEADERSHIP, Humility, Fame, Motivation, Perception, Accountability
1141
“The great rulers - the people do not notice their existence;
The lesser ones - they love and praise them;
The still lesser ones - they fear them;
The still lesser ones - they despise them.” — Lao-Tzu
LEADERSHIP, Authority, Fame, Honor, Hate
1142 CA
“Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks.” — Homer
LEADERSHIP, Knowledge
1143 P
“Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man.”
— Thomas Alva Edison
LEADERSHIP, Business
1144
“Being a general calls for different talents from being a soldier.”
— Titus Livy
LEADERSHIP, Authority, Effectiveness, Reward, Genius, War & Peace
1145
“A manager’s job is to keep the bureaucrats off the backs of the productive people.”
— Rene Cossitt McPherson
LEADERSHIP, Effectiveness, Business
1146 P
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” — Peter F. Drucker
LEADERSHIP, Effectiveness, Personal Management, Planning
1147 PHA
“Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, ‘like
straightening deck chairs on the Titanic’.” — Stephen R. Covey
LEADERSHIP, Effectiveness, Personal Management
LEADERSHIP Cross-References
Fame—8 • Motivation—87,
103-104 • Optimism—125, 129 • Pessimism—281 •
Haste—362 • Personal Management—434-437 • Potential—495 •
Originality—731 • Innovation—737 • Patience—753 •
Authority—1108-1111, 1115, 1121 • Reward—1203 •
Politics—1246 • Communication—1389
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