Leadership Quotes

What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.

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"The factory is a school where men learn discipline and develop their faculties."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"One must possess both vision and the patience to bring vision into reality."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"To lead others, one must first master the discipline of leading oneself."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"A company that neglects its workers' wellbeing neglects its own future."
Josiah Wedgwood
"I envision my role as providing women with style and elegance."
Christian Dior
"I have taught Paris how to dress."
Christian Dior
"A woman of style never follows; she leads."
Christian Dior
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"One must never forbid what one wishes people to do; if one wishes them to do something, one must make them do it."
Coco Chanel
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"I don't like standards. I like the people who set them."
Coco Chanel
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"A leader in cinema must be willing to fail publicly and learn privately."
Ismail Merchant
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"Leadership requires listening more than speaking in the creative process."
Ismail Merchant
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"To employ men's talents is to acknowledge their worth and invest in society's future."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The businessman who ignores the welfare of his workers plants the seeds of his own destruction."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The factory that respects its workers creates not just products, but loyalty and ingenuity."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The great tradition of public service goes by the board."
Cosimo Medici
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"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge."
Cosimo Medici
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"I did not inherit my position; I earned it"
Jacob Fugger
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"Those who cannot read cannot lead"
Jacob Fugger
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"Leadership is influence earned through trust"
Jacob Fugger
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"To build a legacy, one must think beyond the lifetime of seasons."
Giovanni Medici
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"The wise leader plants trees whose shade he will never sit beneath."
Giovanni Medici
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"To lead is to serve; to command is merely to demand."
Giovanni Medici
"Men are so simple and so ready to obey."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"A man's legacy is not what he accumulates but what he contributes."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"To lead is to set an example in every small action."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"To govern is to choose. Every choice shapes the future."
Cosimo Medici
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"The strongest city walls are built on strong governance."
Cosimo Medici
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"To rule well is to serve those under your care."
Cosimo Medici