Leader Quotes · Page 143

I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.

— Hillary Clinton

While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it.…

— John Wooden

It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day,…

— Nora Roberts

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The…

— Leon Trotsky

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

— Ray Comfort

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

“People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who…

— Tommy Lasorda

We are convinced that Organic Avenue is extraordinarily well positioned to become a national leader in both the rapidly growing $5 billion…

— Jonathan Grayer

We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall…

— Boris Yeltsin

I don't buy this 'be a leader' thing. You don't force a leader. It just happens.

— Manu Ginobili

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

— Regis Debray

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever…

— Ross Perot

In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas…

— Michael Ignatieff

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

— Marshall Goldsmith

“The greatest leaders are those who follow their bliss, fulfill their personal legend, and help others do the same on a daily…

— Sebastien Richard

...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man…

— Dave Hunt

What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?

— Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

— John C. Maxwell

You have a great leader now, you have a great president, you have a tough president. He's not gonna be easy on…

— Donald Trump

The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and…

— Simon Sinek

EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world's largest and most respected music companies.

— Chad Hurley

“Leaders emerge, they cannot be recruited.”

— Haresh Sippy

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

— Pol Pot

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my…

— Chuck Hagel

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare…

— Hillary Clinton

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

— George Wendt

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

— Michael Beschloss

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

— Charles de Gaulle

Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.

— Vernon Davis

“What you stay focused on will grow.”

— Roy T. Bennett

I worked with the Nato Military Committee. The Head of the Luxembourg Armed Forces had equal standing with me, and I had…

— Colin Powell

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often…

— Benjamin Rush

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

Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit…

— Gil Amelio

I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.

— LL Cool J