Quotes About Successful Leaders

#1. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

Bonnie Marcus

#2. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity

Reed Markham

#3. The most successful leaders in the Internet Century will be the ones who understand how to create and quickly grow platforms.

Eric Schmidt

#4. Successful leaders are bigger than any individual outcome; their sense of self-worth doesn't depend on its having to work. Their whole self-image is not at stake. They are separate from the deal.

Henry Cloud

#5. When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

John C. Maxwell

#6. We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

Wendy Kopp

#7. Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they
took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough.

Larry Osborne

#8. Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first ... in the long run, that's exactly what makes them successful.

Blake Roney

#9. Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.

J. Oswald Sanders

#10. One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

John C. Maxwell

#12. Successful leaders leaders lead with passion and compassion.

Farshad Asl

#13. Where do business leaders turn for advice to improve their leadership skills? Many successful leaders like Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A turn to the Bible. Speaking at Trinity College in Illinois, "Cathy discussed how scripture dictates Chick-fil-A's business plan.

R.J. Stepansky

#14. Successful leaders are great askers

Warren G. Bennis

#15. Successful leaders all share one common trait - they believe that they can do a better job than the alternatives. Humility is fine when considering your responsibility and duty, but when it comes time to make a decision, you must not question yourself.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

John C. Maxwell

#17. People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision.

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

Zell Miller

#19. Leaders approach conflict with an eye for resolution. When handled effectively, successful confrontations raise team performance. To manage conflict effectively, you must begin by recognizing there are three sides to every story:
Yours / Theirs / The Truth

Angie Morgan

#20. Enlightened leaders get more out of their people because they know that each person already has everything it takes to be successful. They

Steve Chandler

#21. One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

Bill Maris

#23. I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

Naveen Jain

#24. It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

John C. Maxwell

#25. The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn't leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

Scott Hammerle

#26. Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. Perseverance is the steady pathway toward prevailing.

Tom Althouse

#28. Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

Timothy Keller

#29. If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

John C. Maxwell

#30. The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales ... not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.

Steve Maraboli

#31. All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

Gary North

#32. No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

Fareed Zakaria

#33. The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is either very inclusive or a passionate visionary. But the best leaders could be both. Robert

Walter Isaacson

#34. We didn't put a single boot on the ground, and [Muammar] Gaddafi was deposed. The Libyans turned out for one of the most successful, fairest elections that any Arab country has had. They elected moderate leaders.

Hillary Clinton

#35. Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.

Lewis Howard Latimer

#36. Instead of attacking successful American companies, Europe's leaders should ask themselves why their continent has not produced a Google or a Facebook.

Anonymous

#37. What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#38. BJP is doing "gathbandhan". Congress is doing "brashtbandhan" and the criminals are doing "lathbandhan". Our politics is about coalitions. Every coalition where the BJP is part of as leaders, has been successful.

Narendra Modi

#39. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

Marshall Goldsmith

#40. The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!

Bruce Rasmussen

#41. Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done

Mike Krzyzewski

#42. Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.

Greg Cagle

#43. The point is this: the successful person in any field takes time out to confer with himself or herself. Leaders use solitude to put the pieces of a problem together, to work out solutions, to plan, and, in one phrase, to do their superthinking.

David J. Schwartz

#44. Intellectuals are rarely successful as leaders. They are so trapped in their ideals that they cannot venture out in the real world to win and lead.

Awdhesh Singh

#45. Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#46. Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.

Richard Branson

#47. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.

Christian Michael

#48. The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's mind to let him put his hand and happily pull the money and give it to you

Hisham Fawzi