Leadership Skills Quotes - Page 3

• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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  The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

  Tony Blair

  Motivational, Leadership, Art

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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Leadership, Insperational

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.86, Aristotle

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• No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

  Philip Danforth Armour

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fighting

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• Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Skills, Levels, Determine

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Marine, Years, Skills

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• My purpose is to help people understand that leadership skills are useful and relevant for pursuing meaningful aspirations in all aspects of life, and that this is a choice, a decision, not a default.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Meaningful, Skills, People

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

  John Lasseter

  Skills, Careers, Positive Experiences

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• Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

  Jennifer James

  Change, Skills, Twenties

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

  John C. Maxwell

  Skills, Leader, Inspire

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.223, Harper Collins

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• Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And leadership can't be given as a gift - even if you've been blessed with an abundance of leadership skills to share with someone else. Leadership must be earned by mastering a defined set of skills and by working with others to achieve common goals.

  David Cottrell

  Blessed, Airports, Skills

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• All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Leadership, Loyalty, Skills

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• If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

  Jeb Bush

  Leadership, Moving, Creativity

  "Bush touts conservative credentials to anti-tax group". www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2015.

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• The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.

  JR

  Team, Keys, Skills

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• I like to take chances on people, and whenever possible, promote from within - it sends a great message to everyone in the company when someone demonstrates a passion for the job and leadership skills at every step along the way and is rewarded with a leadership role.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Passion, Skills

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• At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

  James R. Thompson

  Texas, Practice, Skills

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• I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Sports, Mother

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• Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

  Conrad Burns

  Real, Self Confidence, Unique

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• No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Attitude, Skills

  Myles Munroe (2007). “Keys for Leadership”, p.12, Whitaker House

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• Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Visions Of The Future, Skills, Curiosity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Most of the strength and the leadership skills and the decisiveness, the resoluteness that I think America was craving from Donald Trump, from a leader, is the same in public as it is in private.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, Skills, America

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather than rote memorization, standardized curricula or socialization. The latter skill set is vital in societies with strong upper classes employing the lower castes, but the former is essential to free democratic nations.

  Oliver DeMille

  Strong, Creativity, Class

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