Travis Bradberry Quotes

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.

Survival is not the only goal of a great leader.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

I am always interested in looking for the strongest possible leadership.

Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

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.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

What makes a leader is to recognize what can be done and not only what is desirable.

Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.