Top 100 As A Leader Quotes
#1. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#2. Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid
Saji Ijiyemi
#3. As a leader, you have to have the humility to understand that your power is limited.
Eric Greitens
#4. As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#5. As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.
Nelson Mandela
#6. As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
#7. I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
Tom Hanks
#8. Speaking the unspeakable. As a leader, you need to not just listen to what's being said, but more importantly, what's not being said.
Pearl Zhu
#9. As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
Najib Razak
#10. As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.
Patrick Lencioni
#11. When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
Naveen Jain
#13. It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.
Patrick Lencioni
#14. As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.
Jon Gordon
#15. Rapid expansion coupled with social stability is proof of Umar's incredible capabilities as a leader
Firas Alkhateeb
#16. As a leader, if you follow your heart, you will have the courage to take on any risk because your heart will lead you to the solution and avoid the risk.
Angeline Kobe Chan
#17. Sometimes i feel that i am unlucky due to couldn't enroll in the Harvard Business School but at least by this encouragement that i enrolled in MBA in Human resource management program whereas i grown as a leader and build the team in the field of HRM through motivation.
Avinash Advani
#18. I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.
Ted Cruz
#19. As a leader, you are the voice of those who do not have one.
Idowu Koyenikan
#20. As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission
Mike Krzyzewski
#21. As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead
Thomas Narofsky
#22. Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.
Susan Collins
#23. As a leader, you have the choice to determine what you are going to do and how you are going to engage others. You can decide to act compassionately regardless of what the weather is - whether it is cloudy or sunny - or whether things are inspirational or not.
Sakyong Mipham
#24. Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.
Stephen Curry
#25. There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.
Pat Williams
#26. I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
#27. The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.
Andy Stanley
#28. As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!
Assegid Habtewold
#29. I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.
Satpal Maharaj
#30. When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.
Colleen Barrett
#31. Cultural listening is the skill of being able to see beyond the symptom to the underlying dynamic. It's an extremely powerful tool to develop as a leader, whether you're the CEO, a team leader, or a solopreneur just starting out.
Jonathan Raymond
#32. The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.
Howard G. Hendricks
#33. As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.
Jaggi Vasudev
#34. My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon
#35. As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you lack enthusiasm for your job, you cannot perform to the best of your ability. Industriousness is unattainable without Enthusiasm.
John Wooden
#36. As a leader you must be sincerely committed to what's right rather than who's right.
John Wooden
#37. Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.
Ivanka Trump
#38. 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
#39. It's easy to be distracted by the job of growing your business. But never forget that your job as a leader is also to grow people.
Darren Hardy
#40. W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught that any time the majority of the people behave a particular way the majority of the time, the people are not the problem. The problem is inherent in the system.2 As a leader, you own responsibility for the system.
Chris McChesney
#41. Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
Rainn Wilson
#42. One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
Sanford I. Weill
#43. I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me ... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
Xavier Becerra
#44. 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
#45. The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.
David Cottrell
#46. As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
Colin Powell
#47. As a leader, there are professional skills and traits that are expected. It's your job to identify and exhibit them so you can be challenged and judged professionally as a leader - and not as a woman.
Liz Weber
#48. Your core values affect your day to day behavior and effectiveness as a leader.
Mark G. Miller
#49. Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
Jack Welch
#50. There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.
Vince Lombardi
#51. The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.
Charles Eliot Norton
#52. Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#53. I am glad that the Crown have proved that I am the leader of the Half-breeds in the North-West. I will perhaps be one day acknowledged as more than a leader of the Half-breeds, and if I am I will have an opportunity of being acknowledged as a leader of good in this great country.
Louis Riel
#54. As a leader you provide for people only what they can't provide for themselves.
Ken Blanchard
#55. Your job, as a leader, is to encourage the people you're responsible for to move physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially toward the objectives you have set to improve the shared work.
Harold Kurstedt
#56. I could almost imagine him as a leader of men without laughing hysterically. [Why are you glaring at me, Carter? That was quite a generous description.] Carter
Rick Riordan
#57. In the past seven years, I've gone from being a nobody with no job and no insurance to someone who is seen as a leader and a role model.
Anonymous
#58. The greatest thing you do as a leader may not
be what you do as a leader but who watches you
do what you do.
Andy Stanley
#59. One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.
Fredrik Backman
#60. As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.
John C. Maxwell
#61. As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as a leader. I learned to ask myself two questions: First, what must the organization I command do and be? And second, how can I best command to achieve that?
Stanley McChrystal
#62. Why is the world in need of a leader like you? You must lead for significant impact. As a leader, find the "cause" driving your leadership brand and pursue its resolution with passion and excellence.
Archibald Marwizi
#63. I didn't revel in death, but I didn't hate it either. Death had raised me, like an older sibling. Amidst death, I had found my bearings as a soldier. Surrounded by death, I had found my place as a leader.
Roshani Chokshi
#64. Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler 's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.
Silvio Berlusconi
#65. Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
Mike Krzyzewski
#66. As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
Madeleine Albright
#67. You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
Colin Powell
#68. Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
Colin Powell
#70. I've been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.
Creed Bratton
#71. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.
Michael Dell
#72. As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. Whenever my organization starts to settle I believe I have to lift my lid, my capacity I have to think and act in a different way to achieve different results.
Craig Groeschel
#73. As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.
Hal Elrod
#74. Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
Rudolf Hess
#75. I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes with it, as a woman, as a leader, as someone who has stepped up to the plate and who opens the door for the rest of the women from the Middle East.
Reem Acra
#76. As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.
Laurie Beth Jones
#77. As a leader, your word is only as good as your last promise kept or broken.
B.J. Gallagher
#78. As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
Jim Rohn
#79. The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.
William A. Adams
#80. Recognizing and accepting both the responsibilities and the opportunities leadership offers you is a significant step in your development as a leader.
Kevin Eikenberry
#81. As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.
Jane Ripley
#82. And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of changes.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#83. I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.
Michael J. Fox
#84. My job as a leader is not to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm a leader.' It's to lead. I mean, I've got to go out and find ways to win these games.
Josh Freeman
#85. Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
Peter F. Drucker
#87. Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#88. If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.
Robert Kiyosaki
#89. A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.
Bob Chiarelli
#90. Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
Marcus Buckingham
#91. When you can inspire others to dream, learn, evolve, and become one that they can appreciate and respect themselves; then you have arrived as a leader.
Vishwas Chavan
#92. You will be tested as a leader ... You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.
Greg Laurie
#93. 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
#94. As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.
Heather Bresch
#95. As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation.
Cory Booker
#96. I can describe myself as a leader who gives my team members opportunities to shine.
Ethan Powers
#97. Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence
Tony Robbins
#98. Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.
Rau'Shee Warren
#99. 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
#100. Dhoni backs players as well. People like (Suresh) Raina, (Ravindra) Jadeja, and Rohit Sharma have developed under him as players and has some terrific qualities as a leader.
Sourav Ganguly
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