An Effective Leader Quotes

#1. Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Bill Shuster

#2. The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

Brian Tracy

#3. Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the "invisible forces" that shape us

Tony Robbins

#4. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.

Thomas Gordon

#5. A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.

Steve Zaffron

#6. Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.

John C. Maxwell

#7. Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Gene Morton

#9. The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the psychological needs of his followers.

David Ogilvy

#10. Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

John Wooden

#11. Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part

Warren G. Bennis

#12. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.

Ravinder Tulsiani

#13. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

Scott Hammerle

#14. In the ideal state a leader ensures that each man is effective in just the right capacity.

Timur Vermes

#15. Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

Georgi Plekhanov

#16. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Simon Sinek

#17. So, when it comes to effective leadership, it's not about you and what makes you comfortable or helps you get ahead. It's about other people. It's about serving God by serving others. That's the mind-set of the mentor leader.

Tony Dungy

#18. An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

John Wooden

#19. Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.

Ken Blanchard

#20. The reality is that the way in which a leader conducts his personal life does, in fact, have a profound impact on his ability to exercise effective public leadership.

Samuel D. Rima

#21. Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

Marcus Buckingham

#22. If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

Dale Carnegie

#23. The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

Bill Courtney

#24. An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

Tom Peters

#25. Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

Jim Talent

#26. If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

John C. Maxwell

#27. An effective leader must step back, look at the big picture, and make sure the important things are not being pushed out of the way by the seemingly urgent needs of the moment.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#28. Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.

John W. Gardner

#29. Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best

John C. Maxwell

#30. An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

John Wooden

#31. In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

John Wooden

#32. Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

Noel Tichy

#33. To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

Meg Whitman

#34. "'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie ... !' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."

Joss Whedon

#35. Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren't actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.

Simon Sinek

#36. The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be.

Michael Hyatt

#37. Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

Tony Robbins

#38. In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.

Alexei Navalny

#39. The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations

Haile Selassie

#40. You don't become an effective leader by default.

John C. Maxwell

#41. The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

Jim Rohn

#42. The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

Bill Hybels

#43. Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

Jim George

#44. One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.

Ken Jennings

#45. One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

John W. Gardner

#46. Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

Jean Illsley Clarke

#47. An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

Ken Wyatt

#48. Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

Peter Drucker

#49. For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.

John C. Maxwell

#50. Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.

Ann M. Fudge

#51. I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

Allister Coetzee

#52. When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Laozi

#53. The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

John W. Gardner

#54. Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Travis Bradberry

#55. Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.

Dave Ulrich

#56. I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.

David Brooks

#57. Effective leadership begins with effective communication.

Asa Don Brown

#58. Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

Douglas Conant

#59. Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

Marcus Buckingham

#60. I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking.

John Wooden

#61. To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.

Elizabeth Thornton

#62. Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

Peter Koestenbaum

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Victor Koo

#64. if a leader combines leadership principles with an understanding of context, there will be effective execution.

Russell E. Palmer

#65. Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

Samuel Wilson

#66. A leader's first priority is to create an environment where others can do these things and that cannot happen if they are not having effective meetings.

Patrick Lencioni

#67. It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

Philip Selznick

#68. I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches ... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

Jeff Bezos

#69. We praise our leaders when they act against our adversaries. But when our own interest is threatened, we begin to dislike the same leaders, irrespective of the sincerity of their intentions. An effective leader is bound to create enemies.

Awdhesh Singh

#70. You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Eric Shinseki

#71. I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

Jean O'Leary

#72. Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

James C. Collins

#73. Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Andy Stanley

#74. The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

Larry Osborne

#75. Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

Daniel Goleman

#76. To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#77. When we become leaders, we sometimes think we are now supposed to have the answers. Yes, we may have some answers, but we will be more effective when we engage others and get their opinions.

Kevin Eikenberry

#78. I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

Peter Senge