Top 100 Quotes About Great Leaders
#1. Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
Assegid Habtewold
#2. Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
Simon Sinek
#3. I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
Taya Kyle
#4. Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.
John P. Kotter
#5. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
Steve Ballmer
#6. Great leaders are never too proud to learn.
John Donahoe
#7. I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.
Mary Barra
#8. The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.
Chris Alexander
#13. Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.
Rick Warren
#14. Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
Jon Gordon
#15. Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.
Carmine Gallo
#16. (P58) It is curious how, with his stark Darwinian outlook, his elevation of war to the central place in human history, and his racism, as well as his fixation on "great leaders," Churchill's worldview resembled that of his antagonist, Hitler.
Ralph Raico
#17. All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.
John C. Maxwell
#18. 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
#19. It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan
Tuhin A. Sinha
#20. It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
Bruce Barton
#21. Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
Reed Hastings
#23. We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders, and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.
Michael Barone
#24. 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
#25. Great leaders make leadership look so easy.
Pat Heim
#26. 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
#27. Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.
Myles Munroe
#28. All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere
#29. I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.
John Stumpf
#30. Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.
Ben Roethlisberger
#31. The real source of her villainy came from those qualities that supposedly make men great leaders- a thirst for power, relentless drive paired with massive ego, and a total lack of emotions.
Mike Madrid
#32. Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
Seth Godin
#33. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
John Peter Zenger
#34. 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
#35. Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
Nitin Nohria
#36. Great leaders take care of their men first, and then worry about their own needs.
Bill O'Reilly
#37. So great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.
Seth Godin
#38. Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.
Rick Riordan
#39. Ordinary leaders move mounds,
good leaders move hills,
but great leaders move mountains.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
Marshall Goldsmith
#42. Great leaders are inspired by a challenge, a need, a problem, an issue that needs to be corrected.
Del Suggs
#44. Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
Phil Crosby
#45. The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Jeffrey Sachs
#46. Great leaders create memorable journeys
John Stein
#47. Inspiration doesn't lie on the sleeves of great leaders, but it is instead hidden in the hearts of the simple souls who seldom show the potential they carry with them.
Sanhita Baruah
#48. The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.
James C. Collins
#49. Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.
Mark V. Hurd
#50. was an eighth cousin of Churchill, and a sixth cousin, once removed, of FDR - and three of World War II's great leaders were thus linked by American intermarriages.
William Manchester
#51. Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
Simon Sinek
#52. Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.
Cheryl Richardson
#54. Somehow great leaders reach deep down in their souls and find the power within them to overcome despair. We must too ... if we want to accomplish great things in our lives!
Timothy Pina
#55. Great Leaders do NOT break the law, not because of the fear of being caught but because of the fear of God & love for the land
Fela Durotoye
#56. Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.
Bob Anderson
#57. DECISIVENESS SEPARATES GREAT LEADERS FROM DREAMERS AND TALKERS.
Jack Canfield
#58. Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
Simon Sinek
#59. Great leaders passed away, politicians made their way.
Yssubramanyam
#60. Great leaders are those who trust their gut. They are those who understand the art before the science. They win hearts before minds. They are the ones who start with WHY.
Simon Sinek
#62. Great leaders, in contrast, are able to inspire people to act. Those who are able to inspire give people a sense of purpose or belonging that has little to do with any external incentive or benefit to be gained.
Simon Sinek
#63. In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.
L. Ron Hubbard
#64. 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
#65. Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves
Marshall Goldsmith
#66. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
#67. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats - and then they figured out where to drive it.
James C. Collins
#69. Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.
S. E. Entsua-Mensah
#70. Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change.
Beth Ramsay
#71. Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.
Steve Ballmer
#72. Compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities, the good-to-great leaders seem to have come from Mars. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy - these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They
James C. Collins
#73. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
Tom Rath
#74. Great leaders give everyone something to believe in,
not something to do.
Simon Sinek
#76. Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.
Andy Mineo
#78. Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#79. Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Allen Klein
#80. Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
Simon Sinek
#81. 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
#82. It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.
John H. Reagan
#84. Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.
Chris Hogan
#85. For great leaders, The Golden Circle is in balance. They are in pursuit of WHY, they hold themselves accountable to HOW they do it and WHAT they do serves as the tangible proof of what they believe.
Simon Sinek
#86. Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.
Richard Condon
#87. All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.
Steve Ballmer
#88. Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn't working-no matter how hard they've worked to make it succeed.
Jim Rohn
#89. 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
#90. The past doesn't equal the future.
All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available
Tony Robbins
#91. Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.
Simon Sinek
#92. The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!
John C. Maxwell
#93. People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.
John P. Kotter
#94. 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
#95. Henry Ford summed it up best. "If I had asked people what they wanted," he said, "they would have said a faster horse." This is the genius of great leadership. Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see.
Simon Sinek
#96. Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.
Hans Finzel
#97. Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.
Chris Cannon
#98. While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.
Warren G. Bennis
#99. Walt Disney was a visionary leader. He had no leadership books or training courses to give him guidance. He operated, as many great leaders do, on instinct and observation.
Jim Korkis
#100. Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
Simon Sinek
