Top 100 Quotes About Good Leaders
#1. Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right
Simon Sinek
#2. Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
Colin Powell
#3. Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.
Brian Sandoval
#4. If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately,
Chetan Bhagat
#5. In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
Euripides
#6. Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.
William Miller
#7. Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.
Jack Welch
#8. Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Warren Bennis
#9. Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.
Amy Chua
#10. Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#11. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!
Melina Marchetta
#12. We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.
Charlie Munger
#13. Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
John C. Maxwell
#14. This was how he came to trust in the power of emulation; he believed that people could be conditioned to do the right thing by observing good leaders.
Nancy Isenberg
#15. It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.
Rudy Giuliani
#17. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.
Fennel Hudson
#18. All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship
Jocelyn Murray
#19. Ordinary leaders move mounds,
good leaders move hills,
but great leaders move mountains.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. Good leaders have a generosity gene.
Jack Welch
#21. Good leaders value people and things of quality".
Peter Smith
#22. Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.
Dale Carnegie
#23. Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.
Nido R. Qubein
#24. Selflessness is the highest goal of good leaders.
Todd Stocker
#25. Good leaders know who they are - their strengths, weaknesses, passions, talents, and values. And, developing leaders always starts with self-awareness.
Lee Ellis
#26. Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.
Cheryl Richardson
#27. By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.
Jay Weatherill
#29. In short, professional competence is not enough to be a good leader; good leaders must truly care about those entrusted to their care.
Simon Sinek
#30. Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
Orrin Woodward
#31. Good leaders seize crises to remake organizational habits.
Charles Duhigg
#32. The underlying issue in getting women to top positions is what kind of leadership we value and how we teach, assess, and promote "good" leaders in all organizations.
Maureen Chiquet
#33. A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.
Hope Powell
#34. Good leaders ask great questions that inspire others to dream more, think more, learn more, do more, and become more.
John C. Maxwell
#35. Arrogance was the vice of good leaders. - Prior Philip
Ken Follett
#36. All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
John C. Maxwell
#37. You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.
Donald Trump
#38. Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#39. Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.
Lee Ellis
#40. Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.
Pat Williams
#41. Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
Amy Hempel
#42. Good leaders hold positive, views of the future. We believe God fulfills our dreams, and our dreams are enlarged. Our desires exceed what we currently have and where we currently are.
Phil Pringle
#43. Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.
Colin Powell
#44. Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.
Roy Bennett
#45. Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.
Myles Munroe
#46. Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
John C. Maxwell
#47. Good leaders are always in the "act" of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.
Maureen Chiquet
#49. Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.
Laozi
#50. Good leaders sacrifice for others to survive; bad leaders sacrifice others to survive
Saji Ijiyemi
#51. Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke
#52. Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
Michael Porter
#53. If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.
Sunday Adelaja
#54. I learned that good leaders don't make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
Jocko Willink
#55. Oh, they may be tough individuals, but it takes more than personal toughness to be good leaders. The methods and goals have to contribute to the toughness.
Chris Kyle
#56. Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.
John Mackey
#57. Good leaders teach you how to swim to the shore;
great leaders teach you how to walk on water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#58. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
Shiv Khera
#59. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players
Stephen R. Covey
#60. Most good leaders want the perspective of people they trust.
John C. Maxwell
#61. Do you have a real interest in people who work for you? Most good leaders have that - it's hard to get someone to follow you if they feel like you hate 'em.
Ben Horowitz
#62. Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.
John C. Maxwell
#63. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.
Noel Tichy
#65. Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
Beau Willimon
#67. When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.
Gloria Steinem
#68. The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
John Lydon
#69. when a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days. We
Brian McLaren
#70. 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
#71. A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.
Phil Mitchell
#72. Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.
John C. Maxwell
#73. As governor, I work in hand in hand with tribal leaders on everything from disaster response to economic development. Tribal governments are important partners to our state government, and I value the good relationships my administration has cultivated with them.
Mary Fallin
#74. A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose - to turn otherwise normal people to nutcases.
Vinko Vrbanic
#75. Be careful of living your life based only on faith and signs, or you might find yourself standing in a South American jungle holding a glass of Kool-aid. Commonsense is the foundation of any good testimony.
Shannon L. Alder
#76. Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.
Leonard Pitts
#77. Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.
John Wooden
#78. It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#80. Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.
Ezra Taft Benson
#81. because I know I would do the best job. Maybe the only thing that's important to you is money, but that matters the least to me. Leaders care about the common good, not the self-interest of one selfish man.
E.L. Todd
#82. When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
Henry Cloud
#83. Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#84. Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.
Bob Barr
#85. Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
Alan Keyes
#86. Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
Travis Bradberry
#87. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!
Carlos Wallace
#88. True leaders serve the people. They have no power but what we lend, and what I give in good faith can be taken away." "The wealthy own my world." "Then it is broken.
Penelope Fletcher
#89. Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.
Barack Obama
#90. Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We're world leaders in cheese.
Nick Harkaway
#91. Leaders often assume to their own peril that spirituality/faith is a good but separate part of their lives. Faith is less like your arm and more like your heart. It is not supplementary to who we are but integral. As such, you should work to keep it in good health.
Brad Lomenick
#92. 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
#93. Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.
David Lloyd-Jones
#94. We don't recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.
Craig Groeschel
#95. This is the way a civilized society begins to devour itself. By allowing our political leaders and law enforcement officials to scapegoat one segment of our population - to turn innocent people into targets of suspicion, into the enemy - we demean all that is good and decent about our nation.
Arsalan Iftikhar
#96. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#97. I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.
Don Cheadle
#98. 26 It is wrong to punish the godly for being good or to flog leaders for being honest.
Anonymous
#99. our objective as moms and dads is to transform our sons from "immature and flighty youngsters into honest, caring men who will be respectful of women, loyal and faithful in marriage, keepers of commitments, strong and decisive leaders, good workers, and men who are secure in their masculinity.
James C. Dobson
#100. We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.
Leif Erikson
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