Top 100 Quotes About A Great Leader
#1. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.
Suzy Kassem
#3. I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.
Evan Spiegel
#4. A chair does not make a great leader. But a great leader can make any chair, his throne."
--Dark Mother
Jeffrey B. Thompson
#5. Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
Warren G. Bennis
#6. I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
Baba Amte
#7. If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.
Bo Schembechler
#8. There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it ... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.
Harry S. Truman
#9. A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#10. I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
#11. A great responsibility to bring and give
a new way of watching to the world.
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
December 25, 2016
Petra Hermans
#12. You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.
Pete Sessions
#13. A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.
Tribute to Noah Sealth.
Miguel El Portugues
#14. 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
#15. To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.
Leonard Lauder
#16. He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.
Rahul Dravid
#17. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
William Allen White
#18. A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
Bo Bennett
#19. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#20. A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.
Ron Kaufman
#21. The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very
friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.
H.L. Mencken
#22. Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.
Steve Nash
#23. What's important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I'm a great leader. All those things matter independent of gender. But I do think there's a responsibility for me to support other women at Google.
Susan Wojcicki
#24. The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.
Chris Matthews
#25. A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.
Leo Hindery
#26. Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.
Laurent Jalabert
#27. Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.
Dan B. Allender
#28. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#29. Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
Robert Dale Owen
#30. 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
#31. At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.
Kevin Allen
#33. The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#34. I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
Edward Tufte
#35. When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
Pete Du Pont
#37. I'm going to be a great leader of this generation.
The stars in the space up there are my witnesses.
Toba Beta
#38. Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.
Richard Branson
#39. Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?
Arthur Keith
#40. I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
Carlos Ghosn
#41. All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.
Criss Jami
#42. You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.
Jack Welch
#43. Becoming a great leader, a great athlete, or great chef takes more than desire or even knowledge. It takes effort. It takes practice.
Dave Anderson
#44. A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
Anne Sweeney
#45. I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.
Marissa Meyer
#46. Every great leader has a generosity gene.
Jack Welch
#47. St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.
William Henry Danforth
#48. Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.
Marco Rubio
#49. Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
#50. It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
Billy Graham
#51. Our great leader, Chairman Mao, has taught us, 'Every reactionary is the same; if you do not hit him, he will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish by itself.'" Her
Ji-li Jiang
#52. I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
Susan Wojcicki
#53. A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.
Kevin O'Leary
#54. Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.
John Monks
#55. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#56. I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.
Adrian Peterson
#57. In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.
Vern Dosch
#58. If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
Simon Sinek
#59. I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.
Robert Herjavec
#60. You can't be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
Jon Gordon
#61. Leadership. I separate myself from the pack at such a great distance that it may be said that I'm a leader - a leader of one with followers of none.
Jarod Kintz
#62. A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.
Jacob Kaye
#63. Every great leader has a dream, my dream is to dream bigger.
Cole Melanson
#64. I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
Lawrence Timmons
#65. Respect, honesty, responsibility, and hope are the language of a great team leader.
Samuel R. Chand
#66. 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
#67. He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
David Lloyd George
#68. The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
James C. Collins
#69. Gods not looking for the next great Preacher or worship leader he is looking for a BROKEN PERSON WHO WILL BE FOUND IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER!!!!!
Joe Joe Dawson
#70. A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.
Debasish Mridha
#71. I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.
Bran Ferren
#72. I think this is where we're trying to get to eventually as a league too hopefully. To have an opportunity to represent and be a leader of a global brand, for me, it was a great decision.
Dwyane Wade
#73. The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.
David McGee
#74. No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
Napoleon Hill
#75. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.
Theodore Roosevelt
#76. Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.
Penn Jillette
#77. A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
Pope John Paul II
#78. Being a leader was nerve-wracking, but with responsibility comes great admiration.
Felicia Day
#79. 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
#80. To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
Fred Perry
#81. If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
Maurice Strong
#83. Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
Lou Holtz
#84. People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands.
Jules Verne
#85. You know, this country today, it seems to me
it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.
Tom Vilsack
#86. No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.
Gretchen Rubin
#87. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.
Israelmore Ayivor
#88. A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
Warren Bennis
#89. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
Neil Gaiman
#90. A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#91. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis ... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.
Hillary Clinton
#92. The male-dominated systems know they cannot maintain their current power structures if and when the woman is restored to her natural and powerful state as a great leader and co-creator.
Bryant McGill
#93. Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#94. The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.
James C. Collins
#95. 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.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.
Richard Branson
#98. A leader with great passion and few skills always outperforms a leader with great skills and no passion.
John C. Maxwell
#99. And I'm supposed to believe that Reagan was a great leader? This is who he chose as the Secretary of Education ...
William Bennett
#100. A leader is great not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
