Quality Leadership Quotes

#1. I'm out talking about this company (General Electric) seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with nothing to hide. We're a 130-year-old company that has a great record of high-quality leadership and a culture of integrity.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#2. The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Rick Warren

#3. Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Joseph Conrad

#4. Control your own Destiny or somebody else will

Jack Welch

#5. The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

Eric Hoffer

#6. Leadership's defining quality is honesty. To honesty, add fairness and consistency.

Cole C. Kingseed

#7. Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Brian Tracy

#8. She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

Dennis Hastert

#9. Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership.

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

#11. The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

Fred Hollows

#12. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Ray Kroc

#13. Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

James Fisher

#14. All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.

W. H. Auden

#15. Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Vince Lombardi

#16. I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

George Soros

#17. Paradox ... Rich in natural resources but poor in the quality of our human resource

Fela Durotoye

#18. Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Brian Tracy

#19. The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

Andy Hargreaves

#20. Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Rahm Emanuel

#21. Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.

Igor Babailov

#22. Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader; his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form.

Farshad Asl

#23. I see entrepreneurship, like many other activities, as a type of mission. A mission by which we can provide better life chances and quality for both our current and future generations.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#24. Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

Vince Lombardi

#25. It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

Kevin Lowe

#26. People want to see other people who have 'non-negotiables,' things for which they're willing to say, 'This is it' we take our stand right here.' That's a leadership quality which people respect.

John Ashcroft

#27. The prayer level of a church never rises any higher than the personal example and passion of the leaders. The quantity and quality of prayer in leadership meetings is the essential indicator of the amount of prayer that will eventually arise among the congregation.

Daniel Henderson

#28. The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

Mary Parker Follett

#29. Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

James Cash Penney

#30. Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

Bob Anderson

#31. Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#32. When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership

Sujit Lalwani

#33. He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.

Steve Waugh

#34. Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Yousef Munayyer

#35. The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

Andy Hargreaves

#36. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership.

John Updike

#37. The main quality of leadership ... is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!

Walt Disney

#38. The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#39. As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.

Stan Albeck

#40. Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

Mark W. Boyer

#41. The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares

Agona Apell

#42. The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.

Steve Maraboli

#43. Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

Jack Welch

#44. 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

#45. The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.

Amartya Sen

#46. The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Jack Welch

#47. Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

Douglas Brinkley

#48. We pinpointed four factors that drive quality as a cultural value: leadership emphasis, message credibility, peer involvement, and employee ownership of quality issues.

Anonymous

#49. We need fresh, new leadership with bold ideas and a new approach to get more people back to work with quality jobs and restored dignity in the lives of our Utahns.

Scott Howell

#50. When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

Richmond Akhigbe

#51. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#52. If you don't value excellence, you won't achieve excellence.

Glenn C. Stewart

#53. Good leaders value people and things of quality".

Peter Smith

#54. Leadership is a process that involves setting a PURPOSE AND DIRECTION which inspires people to combine and work towards willingly; paying attention to the MEANS, PACE AND QUALITY OF PROGRESS towards the aim; and upholding GROUP UNITY and INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS throughout.

James Scouller

#55. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#56. Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Chester Barnard

#57. By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.

T.F. Hodge

#58. They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

David Halberstam

#59. The quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought

Okorie Deborah

#60. The ability to inspire rather than enforce loyalty is a critical quality of leadership.

Geoffrey Hindley