Goals Leaders Quotes

#1. Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

John C. Maxwell

#2. If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015 ... The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

Thoraya Obaid

#3. Too many church leaders have bought into the myth that to clarify the win means establishing attendance goals and raising a lot of money.

Andy Stanley

#4. Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.

James MacGregor Burns

#6. Oh, they may be tough individuals, but it takes more than personal toughness to be good leaders. The methods and goals have to contribute to the toughness.

Chris Kyle

#7. The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.

Riordan Roett

#8. Marketing leaders instead must ask, "What values and goals guide our brand strategy, what capabilities drive marketing excellence, and what structures and ways of working will support them?" Structure must follow strategy - not the other way around.

Marc De Swaan Arons

#9. Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

Mark Gorman

#10. Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Chip Conley

#11. Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

Ellen Sauerbrey

#12. A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

Richard V. Allen

#13. My job is not to micromanage my team, but to craft a vision based on the business goals of the company and encourage the HR leaders who report to me to be brave, innovative, and proactive in pursuit of that common vision.

Patrick M. Wright

#14. One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. Selflessness is the highest goal of good leaders.

Todd Stocker

#16. [On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

Clare Boothe Luce

#17. Don't let quick wins distract your focus from long-term goals.

Sascha Bosio

#18. Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.

William Miller

#19. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

#20. The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Garry Wills