Leader Quotes · Page 111

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

— Aminu Kano

Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.

— Rick Warren

“Great leaders never look down upon those who look up to them.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

— Laura Bush

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

— Robert Greene

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

— Jack Welch

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

— Ron Suskind

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

— Toni Morrison

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you…

— John Glenn

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

— Walter Isaacson

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Real leadership isn’t proven by constant noise or reckless speed, it’s revealed over time through enduring results, wise timing, and unbreakable alignment.”

— Farshad Asl

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the…

— Mary Parker Follett

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how,…

— Michael A. Ledeen

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

— Andy Stanley

In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

— George Pataki

I understand what's going on in people's minds, and I think the political leaders better be asking themselves 'why is it, that…

— Trent Lott

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The main challenge is technology and that's something I really push and work closely with Adidas on. They're real leaders in sports…

— Stella McCartney

Historically during the years of the White minority regimes, the State, the national Government held this land in trust for these communities.…

— Thabo Mbeki

It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead…

— Jeffrey Sachs

The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan…

— Yitzhak Shamir

“The work which can be done by your subordinates should be delegated, even if you like doing the work yourself. You must…

— Awdhesh Singh

The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell…

— Cleta Mitchell

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

— Bill Hybels

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

— George S. Patton

There's more to leading than being in front. The best leaders lead by example not by mouth.

— Uncle Phil

New managers have to come from somewhere, everyone has to be a learner at some point.

— John Barnes

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

— Lee Iacocca

I can't pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.

— Liz Kendall

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

— William J. Clinton

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

— Andrew Carnegie

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

— Benjamin Hooks

Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

— Laozi

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

— Tony Blair

When the locker room needing shaking up, I did it. I remained myself, a leader, until the end.

— Franck Ribery

“Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.”

— Lolly Daskal

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

— Sun Myung Moon

I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

— Magic Johnson

Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.

— Kate McKinnon