Good Leader Quotes - Page 3

• I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Want, Saws

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• The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

  Jack Ma

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Vision

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• Good leaders have a generosity gene.

  Jack Welch

  Generosity, Leader, Genes

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• Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their purpose goes far beyond the mere details of their job. When everyone is united in purpose, a positive purpose that serves not only the organization but also, hopefully, the world beyond it, you have a winning team.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, Team, Winning

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership”, Harper Collins

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• A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.229, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The good leader carries water for his people.

  Laozi

  People, Water, Leader

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• Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

  Carlos Ghosn

  Mean, Years, Leader

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• The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Caring, Important

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.3, Penguin

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• A good leader makes a good follower.

  Wilfred Bion

  Leadership, Leader, Followers

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• It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leader, Times Of Crisis, Crisis

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• You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Fire, Leader

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• I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Writing, People, Leader

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• A good leader brins the lady partner dance level to a superior level.

  Donnie Burns

  Dance, Leader, Levels

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• If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Honor

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• The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and that's a sign of being a good leader or a good president. We usually don't expect that of almost anyone else in any profession, in particular, in public life.

  Michael Beschloss

  Leader, President, Profession

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."

  Larry Ellison

  Leadership, Space, People

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• A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Leadership, Needs, Followers

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• Good leaders are focused, directive, and inspiring... in other words, purposeful. People want to look up to leaders, not because they think they are better than us, but because good leaders provide us with a sense of purpose that inspires us to do better.

  John Baldoni

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Educational, Integrity

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". May 21, 2009.

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• Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

  Amy Chua

  Kids, Independent, Leader

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• I think Enda Kenny has shown himself to be a good leader in the sense that he can accept that people might have differences of opinion with him, but at the same time can see that it's useful to have them involved and part of the team and I very much appreciate that.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Team, Gay, Thinking

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• When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Leader, Trying, Determine

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• Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Vision, Alive

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• Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Inspire, Good Leadership

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• A good leader must be fair.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Leader, Fairs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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