Great Leader Quotes - Page 9

• Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.

  Chris Hogan

  Team, Focus, Leader

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• There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Greatness, Men, Leader

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• All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Numbers, Discipline

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• Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

  Richard Condon

  Cancer, Men, Leader

  Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

  Andy Mineo

  Leader, Inspire, Manipulate

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2015

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• It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet

  Prince Charles

  Cinema, Great Leadership, Film

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• The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."

  Laozi

  Leader, Tasks, Followers

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• Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Wisdom, Careers

  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2013). “Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.101, Harvard Business Press

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• I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patriotic, People, Great Leadership

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• President Trump has the advantage of being surrounded by an excellent cadre of advisors. Kim Jong-un doesn't have any advisors that are going to give him objective counsel. He's surrounded by medal-bedecked sycophants, who dutifully follow him around like puppy dogs with their notebooks open, ascribing his every utterance, and pushing back against the great leader is not a way to get ahead.

  James R. Clapper

  Notebook, Dog, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Most great leaders are also great communicators. Great leaders have learned how to persuade so their objectives can be reached. The most powerful device to persuade is story. Stating facts and figures is not memorable. Emotionally connecting your audience to your idea through story will move them.

  Nancy Duarte

  Powerful, Moving, Memorable

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I personally found Donald Trump's praise for Vladimir Putin troubling or even chilling, frankly. In a room full of military veterans, to be effusing about his great leadership and how strong he is and how popular he is, while disrespecting the American president and American generals, I don't know. That was, I think, not just troubling to me, but to a lot of listeners and I think, frankly, to a lot of Republican listeners as well.

  Philip Gordon

  Strong, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Integrity, Ethnicity, Voice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

  Colin Powell

  Past, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The development and/or revelation of a CEO's potential for great leadership requires slow escalations of experiences that involve pressure, each time given the tools to succeed. Successful experience breeds confidence, as well as an eventual restlessness to try more.

  Justin Menkes

  Successful, Trying, Succeed

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Steve held us to a high standard. He told us he was going to when we first met him at the USA camp. He's been a great leader. I mean, the guy always keeps his composure. He has an amazing mind for the game, and man, Steve, I'm just proud of him. The way he's balanced everybody and let us know what our roles are, he's been great for us. Him and the whole coaching staff. We all deserve this together, we work so hard.

  Klay Thompson

  Mean, Men, Nba Championships

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.

  David Blatt

  Team, Nba Championships, Guy

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• Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.

  Chris Alexander

  Men, People, Expectations

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• I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.

  Richard J. Foster

  Jobs, Thinking, Leader

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• Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].

  Ishmael Reed

  Dream, Father, Past

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Great leaders remove obstacles-including themselves.

  Royce White

  Leader, Obstacles, Remove

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• Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiring, Team, Successful

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• I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

  Edward Tufte

  Leadership, Beautiful, Writing

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• Warren Berger’s book is a cure for a disease in large enterprises. A More Beautiful Question provides a framework to help leaders ask the most important questions—which is one of the most fundamental characteristics of a great leader—while sharing inspiring stories to show the incredible power of this concept.

  Jim Stengel

  Beautiful, Book, Leader

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• I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

  Baba Amte

  Men, Oil, Leader

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