Great Leader Quotes - Page 15

• A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, Ability

  John C. Maxwell (1995). “Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Great leaders give everyone something to believe in,
  not something to do.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe, Giving, Leader

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2010

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• Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  People, Leader, Brilliant

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• To be a great leader of people - inspire them to follow you, not your rules.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  People, Leader, Inspire

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2014

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• He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leader, Gas Stations, Century

  "MEANWHILE: Gandhi, for one, would have found it funny". Salil Tripathi, International Herald Tribune, January 21, 2004.

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• A leader always has one major message, and this weaves into everything he or she does. It remains the primary focus. A leader is to some degree a  prophet, a person with a message. Great leader [sic] see things that others don’t. They preach it until others can see it as well. Their message supports the mission. A leader is a preacher, a person who communicates the fire of the mission. Not all preachers are leaders, but all great leaders will be preachers of one sort or another.

  Phil Pringle

  Fire, Focus, Support

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• Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

  Indra Nooyi

  Leadership, People, Followers

  "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar (p. 225), 2016.

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• The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

  Simon Sinek

  Self, Leader, Needs

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.8, Penguin

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• Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Groups, Individual

  John P. Kotter (2012). “Matsushita Leadership”, p.1823, Simon and Schuster

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• Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Order, Water

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.67, Penguin

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• Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.

  Hans Arp

  Struggle, Son, Python

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• Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

  Steve Ballmer

  Leadership, Inspiration, Way

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• The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

  Erwin McManus

  People, Leader, Needs

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• Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

  Simon Sinek

  Imperfection, Leader, Quality

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• A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

  Leo Hindery

  Humility, People, Leader

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• The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

  Lauren Bacall

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• All of the great leaders down through history have told us we become what we think about. In fact, they have been in complete and unanimous agreement on this point while they disagree on almost every other point. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people rarely think, they simply accept what they see or hear. The next time someone gives you a suggestion, rather than simply accepting and acting on the suggestion - THINK - exercise your reasoning factor. Ask yourself if the suggestion will improve the quality of your life.

  Bob Proctor

  Exercise, Thinking, Agreement

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 17, 2012

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• At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

  Chip Conley

  Heart, Mind, Great Leadership

  "2011: The Year of Curiosity" By Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

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• Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

  Seth Godin

  People, Empowering, Leader

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.23, Penguin

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• Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

  Simon Sinek

  Leadership, Two, Goal

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• Be wary of great leaders.

  Pete Seeger

  Leader

  "Pete Seeger dies aged 94" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Leader, Retiring, Exertion

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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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• ...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Skills, Dancing

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• I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.

  Laurens van der Post

  Men, Light, Profound

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