Great Leader Quotes - Page 11

• There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Inspirational, Strength, Leadership

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

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• When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Kings, Teaching, Boston

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• In America, we've had people that are political hacks making the biggest deals in the world, bigger than companies. You take these big companies, these trade deals are far bigger than these companies, and yet we don't use our great leaders, many of whom back me and many of whom back Hillary Clinton, I must say. But we don't use those people.

  Donald Trump

  America, People, Leader

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• If you want to be a great leader, you have to put the interest of the country above your own. I would like to think that true leadership is not just telling people what they want to hear but helping them understand things, so you can explain to them what you think is best, and then they can judge you on that.

  Lynn Novick

  Country, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

  Eden Robinson

  People, Leader, Selfless

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Lessons, Becoming

  "The Paradoxes Of Leadership: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

  Tom Robbins

  Taught Us, Leader, Doe

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• Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.

  Mark Helprin

  War, Thinking, Government

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.

  David Livermore

  Successful, Thinking, Impact

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Fire will save the Clan. You never understood, did you? Not even when I gave you your apprentice name, Firepaw. And I doubted it myself, when fire raged through our camp. Yet I see the truth now. Fireheart, you are the fire who will save ThunderClan. You will be a great leader. One of the greatest the forest has ever known. You will have the warmth of fire to protect your Clan and the fierceness of fire to defend it. You will be Firestar, the light of ThunderClan.

  Erin Hunter

  Light, Names, Fire

  "A Dangerous Path (Warriors, Book 5)". Book by Erin Hunter, June 1, 2004.

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• I think there will be great leaders emerging from the State of Mississippi. The people that have the experience to know and the people not interested in letting somebody pat you on the back and tell us "I think it is right." And it is very important for us not to accept a compromise and after I got back to Mississippi, people there said it was the most important step that had been taken.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

  Tim Wu

  Leader, Faces, States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Needs, Great Leadership

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

  Carly Fiorina

  Leader, Justified, Flattering

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• One hundred percent. They [Mexico] don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for it. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall. On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, power, beautiful southern border wall.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Wall, People

  Source: time.com

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• In America, we will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent. They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for it. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall. On day one, we will begin working on intangible, physical, tall, power, beautiful southern border wall.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Wall, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

  Justin Menkes

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Thinking, Leader, Information

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Leader, Together

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.

  Eric Bolling

  Guy, Leader, Putin

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Strong, Lying, Successful

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People who become great leaders are those who take time to reflect every day on the big questions: Who am I? What is my purpose? Who are my heroes in history, mythology, and religion? What are my unique talents and how do I express them? These are the qualities of silent reflection that make a great leader, like Jesus.

  Deepak Chopra

  Jesus, Hero, Reflection

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.

  Colin Powell

  Smell, People, Empathy

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

  Ray Stevenson

  Stars, Rocks, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

  Kevin Allen

  Real, Believe, Intelligent

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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