Quotes For Successful Leadership

#1. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

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

Woodrow Wilson

#3. One of the first steps toward successful leadership in the human realm is asking ourselves this question, "When people draw near us, do they recognize that we know God?

Teresa Hampton

#4. I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.

Andy Serkis

#5. 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

#6. One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

Robert E. Quinn

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

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#9. Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character

Warren G. Bennis

#10. Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Seth Godin

#11. Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.

Pat Heim

#12. To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

Ronald Reagan

#13. So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#14. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas

Tony Dovale

#15. Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

Rick Perlstein

#16. Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

Jonathan Darman

#17. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter F. Drucker

#18. I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

John Wooden

#19. Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return.

Archibald Marwizi

#20. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Erskine Bowles

#21. He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful. It really depends on the young man's desire, commitment, work habits, and how important it is to him when he returns.

LaVell Edwards

#22. 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

#23. When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.

Roy Bennett

#24. The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.

Ludwig Von Mises

#25. The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

Tony Blair

#26. No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

Archibald Marwizi

#27. 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

#28. To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

#29. Berg, while the go-to guy for decisions for past campaigns, engaged in frequent and successful battles against sobriety.

Sally Courtnix

#30. 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

#31. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

Tucker Elliot

#32. A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Andy Hargreaves

#33. I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

George Gipps

#34. Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.

Justin Trudeau

#35. The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.

Barbara Cochran

#36. To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude.

Archibald Marwizi

#37. Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

John Spence

#38. Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management.

Rehan Waris

#39. If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. Stagnancy will suffocate a business ... Leadership must be dynamic and evolving to ensure successful growth, enhancement, and longevity.

Steve Maraboli

#41. Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

David Cottrell

#42. Let out your heat!
Unleash your imagination
Let the burning fragrance of your unimpeachable imagination
sparkle through the morning's you.
At night, let the stoical sweat of your day ease your muscles
Relax your feet.
You will need them to walk again tomorrow

Priscilla Koranteng

#43. Being a team player will help you climb the ladder of success. Furthermore, a successful team player can rise to the level of team leader in the future.

Vishwas Chavan

#44. The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

Harry S. Truman

#45. A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

Sydney J. Harris

#46. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

David Rockefeller

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

Tony Abbott

#51. The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Jon Taffer

#52. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

Orrin Woodward

#53. Successful people go through fear to get to where they are.

Saji Ijiyemi

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

Christian Michael

#55. Is it more important for you to know what happened in the First World War or to memorize other significant dates in history, or is it more important to learn the strategies they used for optimum leadership, success and joyful living?
Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?

Maddy Malhotra

#56. The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

Guy Kawasaki

#57. Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

John C. Maxwell

#58. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.

Eraldo Banovac

#59. Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.

Ilham Aliyev

#60. Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

John C. Maxwell

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

Bonnie Marcus

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

Reed Markham

#63. For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.

David Cottrell

#64. 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

#65. If we try to emulate the leadership style of others we perceive as successful, we end up being second-rate versions of someone else.

Henna Inam

#66. People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

Roy Bennett

#67. When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

Thomas Sowell

#68. There is no mystery about successful business ... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Charles William Eliot

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

Farshad Asl

#70. You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

Bill Courtney

#71. Pope Gregory believed that successful pastoral leadership required a balance between the contemplation of the isolated ascetic and the action of the well-trained administrator.

Gregory The Great

#72. If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you'll be successful. Once you start making a 'Plan B', you distract from 'Plan A', and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

A.J. Darkholme

#73. One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Jack Welch

#74. Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

David Cottrell

#75. I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

Margaret Hamburg

#76. I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

S. Truett Cathy

#77. Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.

Andreas Schleicher

#78. There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.

Drew Brees