Best Leader Quotes - Page 5

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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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  Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

  Sam Walton

  Motivational, Leadership, Educational

  Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

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• The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

  John C. Maxwell

  Humble, People, Leader

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• You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

  Colin Powell

  People, Leader, One Day

  Source: www.egonzehnder.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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• Jeremy, Perry, Andre, Steve and Reggie, Grant, You guys make me so much better without you even knowing man. 'Cause I know I set the example for y'all. I know there's days where I have my bad days, And I say some words I'm not supposed to say sometimes, But when I need an extra push, You guys are there man. And I appreciate that. I appreciate that because I'm not always the best leader, I'm not always the best player, I don't always shoot the best in the games, But, Our little handshakes that we do before the game, That gets me going.

  Kevin Durant

  Bad Day, Player, Men

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• The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

  Tom Peters

  Leader, Learners

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• Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Exercise, Leader

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• Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.

  Joelle Charbonneau

  Leader, Sometimes, Interest

  Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing 2: Independent Study”, p.36, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

  John C. Maxwell

  Letting Go, Successful, Leader

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Oct 06, 2014

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• The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

  Tom Peters

  Leader, Stories, Levels

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• The best leaders blend courage with compassion.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Compassion, Leader

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• ...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

  Tony Hsieh

  Leader, Servant, Servant Leadership

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• The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Realizing

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• The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, People, Leader

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• Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Letting Go, Wind, Hands

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• 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

  Leader, Style, Circumstances

  Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Jim Collins, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman (2017). “HBR Classics Boxed Set (16 Books)”, p.262, Harvard Business Press

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• We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

  Charles Koch

  Leader, Depth, Way

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• They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

  Chinua Achebe

  Long, Leader, Election

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• The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Motivational, Success, Leader

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