Best Great Leader Quotes

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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

To be a great leader of people – inspire them to follow you, not your rules.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago.

If you want to be a great leader, you have to put the interest of the country above your own. I would like to think that true leadership is not just telling people what they want to hear but helping them understand things, so you can explain to them what you think is best, and then they can judge you on that.

We go into rural communities and all we do, like has been done in this room, is create the space. When these girls sit, you unlock intelligence, you unlock passion, you unlock commitment, you unlock focus, you unlock great leaders.

I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That’s how you turn a team around.

Leaders are not born, they’re made.

Behind every great leader, at the base of every great tale of success, you will find an indispensable circle of trusted advisors, mentors, and colleagues.

Leaders aren’t born they are made.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

To be an effective leader, you must be trustworthy. If people don’t trust you, they won’t follow you. And if they won’t follow you, your organization won’t meet its goals. Sandy Allgeier explains that personal credibility comes down to a simple truth: It’s not about the type of person you are; it’s about the types of things you do. If you want to be a great leader, read The Personal Credibility Factor.

As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate — and really value — the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

Great leaders in our study treated their people like partners in the organization. That meant they created for their people a sense of connection by teaching them how their jobs impact the larger organization. And they showed them growth opportunities, how they can grow and develop with the company.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

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.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

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.

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

Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.

Leadership is all hype. We’ve had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.