Good Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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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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• No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Average, Needs

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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• A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

  John J. Pershing

  Leadership, Vision, Troops

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• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Heart, Organization

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

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• What you can't enforce, do not command.

  Sophocles

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Leadership, Strong, Humble

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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• I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Talking, Organization

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

  George E. M. Kelly

  Leadership, Business, Differences

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• A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Business, Apology, Ideas

  "Built to Learn: The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization". Book by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171, 2003.

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• A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Leadership, Troops

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• Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leadership, Running, Optimistic

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

  Orrin Woodward

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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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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• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Dancing, Followers

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• Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Powerful, Role Models

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• Leaders are not born, they're made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Discipline, Effort

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• Good leaders must first become good servants.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Firsts

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