Quotes About Great Leadership

#1. 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

#2. Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

John P. Kotter

#3. Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger.

Ellen J. Barrier

#4. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

Scott Hammerle

#5. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

Lance Secretan

#6. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.

William A. Adams

#8. Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#9. Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

Jeffrey Fry

#10. It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet

Prince Charles

#11. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others

Saji Ijiyemi

#12. Mom always said that confidence is a great leadership tool.

Jerilyn Dufresne

#13. Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

David McCullough

#14. There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others.

That's not what leadership is any more.

Phil Dourado

#15. I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

Russell Wilson

#16. I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#17. President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

Lindsey Graham

#18. There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Bob Feller

#19. America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Jim Leach

#20. Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

Myles Munroe

#21. Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Bill Hybels

#22. Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people.

Jeffrey Fry

#23. It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Travis Bradberry

#24. I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

Margaret Thatcher

#25. Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Travis Bradberry

#26. I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

Donald Trump

#27. At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

Chip Conley

#28. 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

#29. Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

Louis R. Chenevert

#30. Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

Todd Stocker

#31. In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

Jack Canfield

#32. Great leadership produces great success.
Weak leadership produces failure.

Ellen J. Barrier

#33. Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.

Mac Anderson

#34. My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Russell Wilson

#35. Great leadership isn't shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

Charles M. Blow

#36. 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

#37. True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

James C. Collins

#38. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Ogwo David Emenike

#39. Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.

Todd Whitaker

#40. Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

John P. Kotter

#41. We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

Ronald Reagan

#42. The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

Stevenson Willis

#43. You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.

Graham Speechley

#44. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer

#45. Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Patrick Lencioni

#46. 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

#47. Your vision at a leadership level needs to be more global and selfless, it needs to go beyond you. Reflect and project your dream for a perfect world, even if you can only make it a great world.

Archibald Marwizi

#48. It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.

Lou Holtz

#49. People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!

Curt Coffman

#50. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.

Lloyd C. Douglas

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

Yousef Munayyer

#52. The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.

Pearl Zhu

#53. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.

Sue Tetzlaff

#54. The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Samuel Smiles

#55. 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

#56. We never have as great an opportunity to show self-comfort as when others around us aren't. Hint: Don't be a jerk because someone else is. Praise the behaviors in others that you most want to flourish.

Kare Anderson

#57. Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Robert Kiyosaki

#58. 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

#59. Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

#60. Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Old Tom Morris

#61. Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

John Buchan

#62. The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

George Soros

#63. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.

William Allen White

#64. Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

Vince Lombardi

#65. Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.

Debasish Mridha

#66. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.

Ravinder Tulsiani

#67. Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

Joe Paterno

#68. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

Chiang Kai-shek

#69. A business is an army;
you are the general,
and your subordinates are your troops.
Victory is achieving your goals.
Great victory is surpassing your goals.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#70. 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

#71. Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

Steve Knox

#72. No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.

Knut Hamsun

#73. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

Warren G. Bennis

#74. Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

Richard Branson

#75. The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Sidney Sheldon

#76. If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#77. First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.

Zhuge Liang

#78. Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Ronald Reagan

#79. Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them

John Stein

#80. The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.

Jeffrey Sachs

#81. As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.

Carly Fiorina

#82. When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader.

Debasish Mridha

#83. 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

#84. Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

Pat Heim

#85. What you can't enforce, do not command.

Sophocles

#86. We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

Joe Paterno

#87. You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

Rich Lesser

#88. Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Pat Conroy

#89. What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

Vicente Fox

#90. 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

#91. (We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

#92. We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is ... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.

Mark W. Boyer

#93. Since joining the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2006, I have strongly supported Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have the utmost respect for her, and I believe the Democrats were able to accomplish a great deal under her leadership.

Albio Sires

#94. I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

Robin S. Sharma

#95. A truly great and enduring vision will extend beyond the leadership season of any one individual and be carried in the hearts and minds of those to whom it has been entrusted.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#96. Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

John Boehner

#97. It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.

Jag Randhawa

#98. Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

Jeff Henderson

#99. When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

Lynn Hill

#100. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

Tom Rath