Great Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Looks, Recognition

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2012

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• Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.

  Gil Amelio

  Motivational, Leadership, Communication

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• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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• Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Leader, Credit

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2013

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• No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Leadership, Joy

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• The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Responsibility, Ranking

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.102, Routledge

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Business, Blow

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• A leader is a dealer in hope.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Leadership, Encouraging

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

  Dee Hock

  Motivational, Integrity, Knowledge

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• Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Errors, Trial And Error

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• True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Giving, Missionary

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.16, Moody Publishers

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• The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.

  Jeff Weiner

  Leadership, Courage, Business

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• Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, Leader, Inspiring Leader

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2014

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• Leaders grow; they are not made.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Leader, Made

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• A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  An address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Washington D.C, March 31, 1968.

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• (We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni

  Educational, Heart, Needs

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni (1996). “Leadership for the Schoolhouse: How Is It Different Why Is It Important”, Jossey-Bass

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• Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

  Simon Sinek

  Motivational, Leadership, Work

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2012

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• I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Needs, Good Leadership

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Light, Differences

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• People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Hate, Real, Pie

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Change, Success, Leadership

  Robert E. Quinn (2010). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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