Top 100 Best Leaders Quotes
#1. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#2. I believe that women make some of the best leaders.
Amy Klobuchar
#3. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#4. The best leaders make mistakes and then learn from them. The best leaders never make the same mistakes again. The only way you can learn is if you understand the mistakes that were made.
Joelle Charbonneau
#5. The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.
Mark Miller
#6. The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.
Mark Miller
#7. As a leader he was much too serious by half, a trait she'd seen diminish even the best leaders' abilities.
K.F. Breene
#8. The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.
John C. Maxwell
#9. The best leaders don't know just one style of leadership - they're skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.
Daniel Goleman
#10. Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.
Joelle Charbonneau
#11. In times of tumult and transition the best leaders know when it is time to stop, unlearn, and relearn.
Liz Wiseman
#12. Those that don't follow the norm usually make the best leaders,
K.F. Breene
#13. The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.
Ben Morton
#14. The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.
Robin Sharma
#15. The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
John C. Maxwell
#16. The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.
Robin Sharma
#17. We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.
Charles Koch
#18. The best leaders are gentle. In our culture, we have been misled to believe that the tougher we are, the more respect we will gain, but that is simply not true. What we gain by being tough is fear, and fear is not respect. Respect is gained by giving it away.
Rebecca Eanes
#19. The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?
Robert K. Greenleaf
#20. Learn from the people
Plan with the people
Begin with what they have
Build on what they know
Of the best leaders
When the task is accomplished
The people will remark
We have done it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu
#21. The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.
Simon Sinek
#22. Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.
Travis Bradberry
#23. The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.
Shawn Achor
#24. Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#25. It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.
Simon Sinek
#26. The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is either very inclusive or a passionate visionary. But the best leaders could be both. Robert
Walter Isaacson
#27. The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
Tom Peters
#28. The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.
John C. Maxwell
#29. The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
Tom Peters
#30. The best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
Tony Hsieh
#31. The best leaders devote almost all of their energy to inspiring and enabling others.
Brad Lomenick
#32. They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe
#33. Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.
Robin Sharma
#34. The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.
Peter Koestenbaum
#35. The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
Mary Parker Follett
#36. The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.
Ed Bearss
#37. The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.
David Ogilvy
#38. You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.
Orrin Woodward
#39. Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people.
Richard Branson
#40. Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.
Craig Groeschel
#41. To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tzu
#42. The best leaders are following Christ. That's the best leader you can follow.
Tony Dungy
#43. The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.
Bob Rae
#44. The best Leaders Without a Title use their heads and listen to their hearts.
Robin Sharma
#45. the best leaders tend to be missionaries rather than mercenaries.
Alex Ferguson
#46. The best leaders blend courage with compassion.
Robin Sharma
#48. You always say the best leaders figure out how to turn a bad situation to their advantage. When life gives you gators, make Gatorade
Jeff Garvin
#49. When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.
Mark Miller
#50. There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.
Derek Sivers
#51. If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.
Bo Schembechler
#52. Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic.
J. Oswald Sanders
#53. because I know I would do the best job. Maybe the only thing that's important to you is money, but that matters the least to me. Leaders care about the common good, not the self-interest of one selfish man.
E.L. Todd
#54. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#55. Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.
Albert Einstein
#56. The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Lao-Tzu
#57. I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!
Charles Kennedy
#58. Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
Warren Bennis
#59. Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Laozi
#60. Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We're world leaders in cheese.
Nick Harkaway
#61. REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others ... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.
Tony Dovale
#62. Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving- and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move
Jean Giraudox
#63. Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.
Robert Kagan
#64. If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#65. Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.
David Ignatius
#66. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#68. Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Hermann Goring
#69. Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.
Ronald Reagan
#70. Witches didn't have leaders, of course, but everyone knew that Granny Weatherwax had been the best leader they didn't have, so now someone else would need to step forward to generally steer the witches.
Terry Pratchett
#71. Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best
John C. Maxwell
#72. We could have the most amazing leaders, the best policies and the strictest laws; however, if we the people don't care about what the leaders do or about following laws, nothing good can happen.
Chetan Bhagat
#73. Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated
Mike Krzyzewski
#74. Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.
Jane Ripley
#75. We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.
Ralph Peters
#76. Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone.
Our seeds are disappearing.
Janisse Ray
#77. The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.
Jay Nixon
#78. All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though ... These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.
Noel Coward
#79. Powers rise and fall. Leaders come and go. History makes a mockery of our best-laid plans, in the end, you aare left with thosecthings you have shared with one another
Kirsten Beyer
#80. We do not know whether Melville's work is of universal interest because we have not reached the end of history yet, despite the best efforts of some of our political leaders.
Terry Eagleton
#81. Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.
John C. Maxwell
#82. Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table - so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.
Daniel H. Pink
#83. I mean, they're only the best punk band out there right now, named for the fucking apathy of a xenophobic fucking nation oblivious to the fucking terror its leaders wreak on the rest of the world because they're too busy worrying if their cat might be stuck up a tree or something.
Rachel Cohn
#84. Know the strength of the followers and tap into their energy. Get others involved. Trust them to do their best. Finally, don't forget to praise the workers.
Teresa Hampton
#85. Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.
Lisa See
#86. But on the day after a defeat, the men who matter are the leaders. Anyone can lead men after a victory. Only the best can lead after a defeat.
Christian Cameron
#87. Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.
James MacDonald
#88. The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
Stephen Kinzer
#89. The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.
Gustave Le Bon
#90. Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.
Peter Drucker
#91. In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.
Don Yaeger
#92. Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.
Rachel Maddow
#93. Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
Barbara Corcoran
#94. Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.
Jim Caviezel
#95. The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ; our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential.
John Paul Warren
#97. When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don't give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.
John C. Maxwell
#98. Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.
Ben Bradlee
#99. All leaders have to live with disappointment at some point or another. If I have to learn that lesson early, I won't enjoy it, but I will do my best not to let you down.
Joelle Charbonneau
#100. Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.
Mike Krzyzewski
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