Being A Good Leader Quotes:

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

- George E. M. Kelly

topic: Business, Differences, Leader, Funny Leadership, Spiritual Leader

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

- Aristotle

topic: Leadership, Dancing, Followers, Leadership By Great Leaders, Good Leader

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Leadership, Insperational, Helping Others, Leadership And Service, Leadership Development

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership, True Leader, Innovation And Leadership

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

- Tom Peters

topic: Leadership, Business, Insperational, Leadership And Management, Leadership Skills

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

- Henry Miller

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Business, Lead Characters, Leadership Courage

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

- Laozi

topic: Leadership, People, Good Man, Leadership Courage, Leadership Training

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

- Arleigh Burke

source: "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

topic: Leadership, Determination, Jobs, Leadership Skills, Involving

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Business, Leading On, Good Leader

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

- George Orwell

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Winning, Pinching, Inspiring Leader

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Differences, People, Management Motivation, Innovation And Leadership

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

- Aristotle

topic: Leadership, True Leader, Commanders, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leadership In Education

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

- George S. Patton

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, World War 2, Inspiring Leader

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

- Witter Bynner

topic: People, Boss, Leader, Managing People, Funny Leadership

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Leadership, Witty, Men, Consent Of The Governed, Leadership In Education

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

- Rudy Giuliani

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

topic: Leadership, Vision, Needs, Leadership And Vision, Leadership Vision

A leader leads by example not by force.

- Sun Tzu

source: "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter IX), 2003.

topic: Army, Leader, Example, Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

- Robert Jarvik

source: "At theNAT, building a family". Interview with Lisa Deaderick, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 4, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Fear, Leadership And Vision, Leadership Vision

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

- Polybius

topic: Leadership, Victory, Way, True Leader, Military Leader

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

- Grace Hopper

source: "Built to Learn: The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization". Book by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171, 2003.

topic: Business, Ideas, Easier, Good Leader, Future Leaders

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

- Carlos Ghosn

topic: Mean, Years, Leader, Being A Good Leader

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

topic: Leader, Quality, Able, Being A Good Leader

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

topic: Real, Priorities, Leader, Being A Good Leader

The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and that's a sign of being a good leader or a good president. We usually don't expect that of almost anyone else in any profession, in particular, in public life.

- Michael Beschloss

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Leader, President, Profession, Being A Good Leader