Leader Skills Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

John C. Maxwell

#3. A leader with great passion and few skills always outperforms a leader with great skills and no passion.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Shape your coat according to your cloth.

Thomas Nashe

#5. Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.

Andy Stanley

#6. Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

John C. Maxwell

#7. Five rules to follow to be a great leader:
1. Be curious.
2. Serve others.
3. Be purpose oriented.
4. Be adaptive.
5. Be positive.

Debasish Mridha

#8. If we're not ready for leadership or don't want to be the leader, then we need to focus on our followership skills that relate to a bad leader or select another leader that we think would do a better job than we would.

Kurt Madden

#9. Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Laurence Olivier

#10. Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.

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#11. Stay rooted in the word of God and prayer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

Richard V. Allen

#13. A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

Jack Ma

#14. A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.

Orly Wahba

#15. One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

David Grossman

#16. It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Aristophanes

#17. Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.

Dan Butler

#18. The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.

Joseph J. Lhota

#19. The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.

Ken Jennings

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

Gene Morton

#21. The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.

Tim Frick

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

Ravinder Tulsiani

#23. I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.

Richard Branson

#24. Don't look back once, the entire time I'm talking to her. But I can feel his eyes on me all the time. Like sunshine.

Sophie Kinsella

#25. I dont understand how people live without creating

Samuel L. Jackson

#26. Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence

Tony Robbins

#27. You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'

Catherine Hardwicke

#28. I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.

Akio Morita

#29. It is equally important that we now secure the right deal for Britain - and the next leader must have the skill and credibility to put together the right team to renegotiate our exit from and future relationship with Europe and explain the final terms to the British people.

Nicky Morgan

#30. The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

Joseph J. Romm

#31. Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

John C. Maxwell

#32. You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.

Christine Feehan

#33. An ideal Mentor is trustworthy (i.e. capable of keeping things confidential), optimistic, dependable and available, a seasoned leader or contributor within the company, influential, a good listener and has excellent interpersonal skills.

Leslie Gordan

#34. Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

Jack Welch

#35. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

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