Leader Quotes · Page 97

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

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

— Georges Pompidou

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I'm your leader.

— Anonymous

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

— Chris Christie

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

— Winston Churchill

After a world title run, you can't really call someone else your leader.

— Cody Rhodes

'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers.

— Pankaj Ghemawat

I think every leader has to be willing to examine their own biases.

— Maya Wiley

“Learn how much confidence to have in your people—don’t assume it. No manager should delegate responsibilities to people they don’t know well.”

— Ray Dalio

As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are…

— Laurie Beth Jones

Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best…

— Colin Powell

“A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable…

— Stan Slap

Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person…

— Brian Tracy

“The ultimate test of a transformational leader is the ability to raise up a new generation of leaders.”

— Jim Louwsma

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going…

— Alec Baldwin

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible…

— Vanna Bonta

“And I extend this to so many of our corporate leaders. I ask you to draw your eye down to our glorious…

— Adam Nevill

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls…

— Greg Mortenson

A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the…

— Charles Duhigg

I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the…

— Judith Butler

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We must reflect a holistic view of the leader, in three dimensions, character, substance and style. Character consists of the qualities that…

— Suzanne Bates

There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader,…

— John Adams

Conservatism has never been about fear or about anger. Not at its best. Do people have a right to be fearful of…

— Marco Rubio

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

— Andy Stanley

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

— John C. Maxwell

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

— Charles Evers

Leaders of thought are rarely leaders of action. Those that are both shape history.

— Matt Townsley

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

— Hillary Clinton

I've always considered myself a leader, a leader of men.

— Matt Nagy

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

— John M. Perkins

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

— Jack Ma

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

— Don Meyer

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

— Orrin Woodward

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

— Orrin Woodward

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

— Max Weber

“get-after-it plan for success and owning your place at the next summit in your leadership journey”

— Anonymous

“Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.”

— Lolly Daskal

“Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.”

— John Feinstein