Great Leader Quotes - Page 8

• If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.

  Larry Brilliant

  Business, Thinking, Obvious Things

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• Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

  David McCullough

  Inspirational, Motivational, Great Leadership

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• We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

  Alan Briskin

  Real, Moving Forward, Believe

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• A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.

  Simon Sinek

  Sacrifice, Numbers, People

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• Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press

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• A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.

  Andrew Hill

  Worry, Leader, Wells

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• Renowned management guru Peter F.Drucker looked back at his 65-year consulting career shortly before he died. He concluded that great leaders could either be 'charismatic or dull' or 'visionary or numbers-orientated,' but the most inspiring and effective managers he knew all had said we rather than I.

  Robert I. Sutton

  Leadership, Years, Careers

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• Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Team, Climbing, Hiking

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• A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

  Klaus Schwab

  Heart, Leader, Soul

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• You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

  Napoleon Hill

  Civilization, Leader, Dreamer

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.30, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Franklin Roosevelt is one of the great leaders because he does get along with other people. He makes this huge effort. He's a very charming man. He tries to bring Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill into this tripartite agreement to run the world. And he really was close. If he hadn't died in April of '45, the whole history would be different.

  Oliver Stone

  Running, Men, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The leader is the bell ringer, the trumpet blower, the drum beater, the vibration maker, and the vision caster… A great leader imparts the burden, inspires commitment, and sets the pace for achievement of God’s purpose.

  Phil Pringle

  Commitment, Achievement, Leader

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.28, Whitaker House

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• Behind every great leader, at the base of every great tale of success, you will find an indispensable circle of trusted advisors, mentors, and colleagues.

  Unknown

  Leader, Mentor, Got Your Back

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• Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago.

  Robert Downey, Sr.

  Country, Leader, Battle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

  Napoleon Hill

  Kindness, Heart, Men

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.134, Penguin

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• Donald Trump ran for office complaining that at $19 trillion, the US debt was completely out of control, and yet what he's planning to do is throw trillions of dollars more onto that debt. If the proposed tax plan cuts upon the wealthiest Americans is enacted, 10 years from now America's debt will be over $30 trillion. And so, he's contradicting, his own stated positions. And that's because, to Donald, none of this is about policy. It's not about sound economics. It's about greed and the glorification of the great leader.

  David Cay Johnston

  Cutting, Office, Greed

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

  Jon Gordon

  Greatness, Leader, Succeed

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2016

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• You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.

  Jeremy Irons

  Running, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

  Jack Welch

  People, Leader, Failing

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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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• One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

  Gale Harold

  Leader, Battle, Quality

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• I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Want, Saws

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• I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

  Lewis Black

  People, Leader, Drug

  "Black on Broadway". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. May 15, 2004.

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• In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

  Henry Rollins

  Korea, Cities, Guy

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• Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

  Lance Secretan

  Future Leaders, Great Leadership, Process

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