Quotes on Great Leader

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

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

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be