Good Leader Quotes - Page 5

• Good leaders hold positive, views of the future. We believe God fulfills our dreams, and our dreams are enlarged. Our desires exceed what we currently have and where we currently are.

  Phil Pringle

  Dream, Believe, Views

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.24, Whitaker House

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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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• While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leader, Momentum

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership”, p.278, Thomas Nelson

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• A good leader leads with compassion and love, not fear and blood. A country that harms its people because they are not happy with the leader -- is not a country that belongs to the people, but to the leader.

  Suzy Kassem

  Country, Compassion, Blood

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• All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.

  Richard Branson

  Reality, Ideas, People

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• Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

  Simon Sinek

  Selfish, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.quickbase.com

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• A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

  John Wooden

  Leader, Bankers, Details

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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• I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

  Sizzla

  Teaching, Pride, Leader

  Source: www.thepier.org

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• Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

  Marcia Whicker

  Leadership, Self, Persuasive

  Marcia Lynn Whicker (1996). “Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad”, Praeger Publishers

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• We can influence people for bad or good.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, People, Influence

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• Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Life, Leadership, Fall

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• I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Keys, Goal

  "America's Best Leaders: Benjamin Carson, Surgeon and Children's Advocate". Interview with Avery Comarow, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• We have not always been in sync on every issue in terms of our core values, in terms of her integrity, her truthfulness, her thoughtfulness, [Angela Merkel] doing her homework, knowing her facts, her commitment to looking out for the interests of the German people first, but recognizing that part of good leadership on behalf of the nation requires engaging the world as a whole, and participating effectively in multilaterally institutions, I think she's been outstanding.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Commitment, Thinking

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• I believe a good leader brings out the best in people by listening to them, trusting in them, believing in them, respecting them and letting them have a go.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, People, Leader

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

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• A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

  John Flanagan

  Leader, Care, Knows

  John Flanagan (2011). “Oakleaf Bearers (Ranger's Apprentice Book 4)”, p.301, Random House

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• Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Leader, Good Man, Very Good

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• But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Tin, Lines

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• Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

  Donald Trump

  Leadership, Focus, Vision

  Twitter post from Aug 6, 2014

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• All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Wells

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• You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by being humble.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Leader, Important

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• A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

  Anne Sweeney

  Jobs, Focus, Leader

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• I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Believe, Order

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Leadership, Years, Perspective

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• Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Leadership, Differences, Making A Difference

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• A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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