Good Leader Quotes - Page 6

• Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

  Noel Tichy

  Leadership, Winning, Organization

  Noel M. Tichy (2009). “The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at E”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Real, Priorities, Leader

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• There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

  Shiv Khera

  Skills, People, Leader

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from May 16, 2016

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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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• A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Leader, Stories

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• Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

  Amy Hempel

  Leader, Following, Scarce

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• Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.

  Simon Sinek

  Hard Work, Special, Energy

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2013

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• Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

  Colin Powell

  Ideas, Empowering, Leader

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• A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Office

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Mar 27, 2012

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• An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Leader, Important, Know It All

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• Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

  Laozi

  Leader, Taoism, Force

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• Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader cant just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

  Lisa Leslie

  Leader, Quality, Able

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• A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.

  Haile Selassie

  Emotional, Thinking, Leader

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• Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Leadership, Team, Inspiration

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• The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Government, People

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• Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Moving, Fire

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• Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.

  Pat Williams

  Children, Teaching, Athlete

  Source: nerdreactor.com

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• Bad leaders care about who is right.  Good leaders care about what is right

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Care

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2013

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• You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, People, Curiosity

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• Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

  Simon Sinek

  Good Leadership, Easy, Default

  Twitter post from May 07, 2015

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• Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Leadership, Good Leadership, Company

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• Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

  Chris Hadfield

  Leadership, Mean, People

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Fathers Day, Brother, Uncles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

  Euripides

  Men, Hands, Leader

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.

  Jack Welch

  People, Leader, Would Be

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