Top 50 Quality Of A Leader Quotes
#1. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc
#2. The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
Simon Sinek
#3. What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.
R. K. Laxman
#4. If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
Jim Rohn
#5. And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.
Geraldine Brooks
#6. It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.
Frances Hesselbein
#7. One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
Brian Tracy
#8. W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught that any time the majority of the people behave a particular way the majority of the time, the people are not the problem. The problem is inherent in the system.2 As a leader, you own responsibility for the system.
Chris McChesney
#9. The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.
Frances Hesselbein
#11. I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
Yelena Baturina
#12. There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
Sheryl Sandberg
#13. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.13
Sheryl Sandberg
#14. 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
#15. Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
Tacitus
#16. The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do.... The leader of today and the future will be focused on how to be ... how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage. - Frances Hesselbein
Mim Carlson
#17. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.
T. Boone Pickens
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.
Michael Jordan
#21. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.
Frances Hesselbein
#22. 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
#24. The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.
George Scialabba
#25. There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
John C. Maxwell
#26. The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.
John Heider
#27. Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#28. Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cyborg asks Shade to gather the Secret Seven together and help him stop the war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman, Shade agrees - albeit reluctantly.
Peter Milligan
#29. Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.
Lisa Leslie
#30. 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
#31. We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.
Richard Branson
#32. Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
Bill Condon
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.
Gale Harold
#36. Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
Tacitus
#37. But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.
Ron Jaworski
#38. When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.
Richmond Akhigbe
#39. 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
#40. The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
Frances Perkins
#41. Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.
Peter Drucker
#42. When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.
John C. Maxwell
#43. This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.
Thomas Frank
#44. The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.
Jack Ma
#45. No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell
#46. Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.
Leon Panetta
#47. To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.
Meg Whitman
#48. The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois
#49. Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.
Gary Hirshberg
#50. Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.
Jack Welch
