Quotes on Leader

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

Leaders don't make excuses. They create results

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.