Leader Quotes · Page 125

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

— James C. Collins

If you have to remind people you're the boss, I don't think you're going to be a very effective leader.

— Paul DePodesta

“Great leaders are the first to say, “I was wrong. Let’s make a change.”

— Beth Ramsay

Poor leaders have a certain style and that's the only style they have.

— Marc Randolph

Sometimes, you do need different leaders for different stages of the company.

— Cheryl Yeoh

“Any leadership that disempowers its followers cannot be entrusted to lead.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are”

— Savania China

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

— Rob Reiner

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

— Dean Smith

Its one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people hes leading…

— Dirgha Tamang

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

— James Hunter

“Exemplary leaders know that if they want to gain commitment and achieve the highest standards, they must be models of the behavior…

— James M. Kouzes

One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle…

— Gale Harold

“Who wants a leader who wants to be leader?" And I could see his point there. I've always sort of thought we…

— Adam Rex

Just for me, my leadership revolves around serving people. It's the way I thought would be effective for my personality.

— Monty Williams

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion…

— John McCain

I am glad that the Crown have proved that I am the leader of the Half-breeds in the North-West. I will perhaps…

— Louis Riel

Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill…

— Linus Pauling

It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated…

— Rei Kawakubo

When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the…

— Tom Rath

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you…

— Jocko Willink

Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And…

— Eric Holmes

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into…

— D.T. Suzuki

“amounts of organization, leadership, and funding. Like a proverbial iceberg, sometimes the "free”

— Cathy N. Davidson

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

— Ayn Rand

I am very grateful to the MLAs for unanimously electing me as the BJD legislature party leader.

— Naveen Patnaik

“Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.”

— Hockson Floin

“A missed opportunity? It is like surviving an assassination attempt.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The best leaders lead like they’re not in charge even when they are.”

— Clay Scroggins

Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

— Will Rogers

[Donald Trump] respect for the Republican leaders he denounced.

— George Stephanopoulos

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

— Emmitt Smith

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

— John Baldoni

“If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

— Anonymous

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

— Brian France

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

— Dan Lipinski