Leaders Fail Quotes

#1. when leaders fail to tell employees that they're doing a great job, they might as well be taking money out of their pockets and throwing it into a fire,

Patrick Lencioni

#2. The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

Kobe Bryant

#3. Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!

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#4. You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

Ron Fournier

#5. I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

Kofi Annan

#6. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.

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#7. The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

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#8. 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

#9. Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.

Simon Sinek

#10. Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

Peter Cosgrove

#11. People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.

Orrin Woodward

#12. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

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#13. To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

Paulo Freire

#14. Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#15. 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

#16. Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.

John C. Maxwell

#17. Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.

Edward De Bono

#19. Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire.

Ronald Reagan

#20. We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

Peter Yarrow

#21. I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

Donald Trump

#22. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

Bob Anderson

#23. Leaders in business and government, who fail to see the holistic interdependence of our planet, are destined to cause its demise.

Said Elias Dawlabani

#24. What too many leaders of organizations fail to appreciate is that it's not the people that are the problem. The people are fine. Rather, it's the environment in which the people operate that is the problem. Get that right and things just go.

Simon Sinek

#25. We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but ... not by much.

Joe Abercrombie

#26. Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

John C. Maxwell

#27. 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

#28. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#29. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.

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#30. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

Rick Welts

#31. Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

Justin Welby

#32. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

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