Leader Quotes

3486 Leader quotes by 1945 unique authors

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. — Constance Baker Motley
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified… — Tony Greig
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence. — Jack Welch
A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case… — Henry Mintzberg
In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity,… — Peter Senge
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who… — Stephen Covey
Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty. — Gary Hamel
Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others. — Marshall Goldsmith
The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk… — Tom Peters
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the… — Tom Peters
As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're… — Ken Blanchard
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be… — James MacGregor Burns
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. — James MacGregor Burns
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels… — James MacGregor Burns
A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others. — Charles Handy
The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate. — Daniel Goleman
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to… — Bertrand Russell
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone — Bill Walsh
I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing… — D. Wayne Calloway
A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you… — Andy Stanley
To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is… — Andy Stanley
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning. — Warren G. Bennis
Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also… — Unknown Author
Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader. — Peter Burwash
Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This is the crucial… — Garry Wills

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