Great Leaders Quotes
90 Great Leaders quotes by 62 unique authors
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Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.
— John C. Maxwell
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Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
— John F. Kennedy
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Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.
— Steve Ballmer
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
— Simon Sinek
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Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.
— Simon Sinek
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Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic…
— Guy Kawasaki
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby…
— Michael Parenti
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He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does…
— Dan Rather
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they…
— Charles M. Blow
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People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own…
— John P. Kotter
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Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with…
— John P. Kotter
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players..
— Blaine Lee Pardoe
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Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
— Marshall Goldsmith
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Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.
— Peter Burwash
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This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.
— Steve Ballmer
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Great leaders rally people to a better future.
— Marcus Buckingham
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Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.
— Simon Sinek
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Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more…
— Adam Grant
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The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish.…
— John C. Maxwell
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It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you…
— Donny Deutsch
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Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never…
— Simon Sinek
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Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.
— Simon Sinek
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The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are…
— Simon Sinek
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In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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