Good Leadership Quotes

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

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

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

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.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you know, bad luck as well as good luck, keep people focused on what the key, you know, business wins are, and you know, provide the energy that people always need in order to, you know, to go into battle because, you know, work is hard and go into work and do that well. And provide a good leadership beacon for that. In other words, it's the same thing that makes good leadership in any other time.

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

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

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

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

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

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

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

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.

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

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

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

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

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.