Successful Leader Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is "too busy" to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.

Napoleon Hill

#4. The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

Richard M. Nixon

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

John C. Maxwell

#6. Technical expertise is only a tiny portion of what it takes to be a successful employee and, particularly, a successful leader.

Joanie Connell

#7. The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.

Henry Ford

#8. A sure indication of a successful leader is the collective and consistent testimony of subordinates who are grateful for what they learned and how they grew while they worked under that leader.

Richard Blackaby

#9. The successful leader must be willing
to assume responsibility for the mistakes
and the shortcomings of his followers.

Napoleon Hill

#10. To get along with others, and also become a successful leader know how to provide tailor made feedback that leads to performance improvement...

Assegid Habtewold

#11. Without longsuffering, it is impossible to be a successful leader.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
By John Maxwell

John C. Maxwell

#13. The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Napoleon Hill

#14. 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

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

Fareed Zakaria

#16. 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

#17. I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs of people outside. I believe it could have been improved. But it was very successful for what it was.

Buzz Aldrin

#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. To be a successful team leader, one has to stay back after the din and clutter of a working day to emerge better-equipped and ready to face a new day.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

John C. Maxwell

#21. 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

#22. The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.

Mike Krzyzewski

#23. 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

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

Rehan Waris

#25. 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

#26. To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Morgan Wootten

#27. Give me an enthusiastic, purpose-oriented person and I will give a successful future leader.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

Paul Johnson

#29. 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

#30. If you look at anything successful, you will find traces of a good leader in it.

Idowu Koyenikan

#31. I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

Richard Branson

#32. Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#33. 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

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

Marshall Goldsmith

#35. If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

John C. Maxwell

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.

Bob Chiarelli

#40. Successful leaders are great askers

Warren G. Bennis

#41. A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Mike Krzyzewski

#42. 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

#43. The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

Gyan Nagpal

#44. I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Lee Iacocca

#45. 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